Stolen bikes: All trucks leaving city to be checked
45 suspects wanted for 120 cases arrested.
LAHORE:
Trucks leaving the city will be required to get a clearance certificate and their cargo checked to ensure they are not transporting stolen motorbikes, said Deputy Inspector General (Investigations) Ali Amir Malik on Tuesday.
The DIG said that motorbike theft was an increasing problem in the city and admitted that the police had not been able to curb it so far. He said that the police were trying to change this.
“We have identified the crime pockets and peak crime times and are making a strategy to curb bike theft,” he said.
He said that stolen motorbikes often ended up being used in crimes. He said that earlier, there was a requirement that motorbike rental shops put their name on the number plate and weld the plate to the back of the bike. This made it easier to track down what vehicles were used in a crime like a robbery. This practice was no longer being enforced, he said, so many criminals went on robbery or mugging sprees on rented bikes.
At an earlier press conference on Tuesday the DIG, flanked by Senior Supertinedent of Police (Investigations) Abdur Razzaque Cheema and Crimes Investigation Agency Superintendent of Police Umer Virk, said that 45 suspects wanted in 120 cases had been arrested and valuables worth Rs14 million recovered from them. They did not say when they were arrested. Most of the cases were registered in the current year, though some dated back to 2006.
The DIG said that the cases included five murders (including three of people killed for resisting robbers), six cases of injuring people for resisting robbers, a dacoity, 78 muggings, 15 robberies, and eight motorcycle or vehicle thefts. Two of the cases were in Islamabad.
The 45 suspects arrested for the crimes included seven proclaimed offenders and seven with criminal records. The police seized Rs11.89 million in cash, three tolas of gold, a diamond ring worth Rs500,000, 14 motorbikes, a Qing Qi rickshaw, two tractor trolleys, two laptops, two digital cameras, a movie camera and 19 mobile phones from the suspects.
The murder cases include the killing of Muhammad Akbar, a resident of Batapur, during a robbery near the BRB Canal; the murder of Hayat Floor Mill Sargodha cashier Ghulam Hassan during a robbery at the Upper Mall on July 27; and the killing of sweeper Bashir Masih at the HSY Studio in Gulberg 3.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 16th, 2011.
Trucks leaving the city will be required to get a clearance certificate and their cargo checked to ensure they are not transporting stolen motorbikes, said Deputy Inspector General (Investigations) Ali Amir Malik on Tuesday.
The DIG said that motorbike theft was an increasing problem in the city and admitted that the police had not been able to curb it so far. He said that the police were trying to change this.
“We have identified the crime pockets and peak crime times and are making a strategy to curb bike theft,” he said.
He said that stolen motorbikes often ended up being used in crimes. He said that earlier, there was a requirement that motorbike rental shops put their name on the number plate and weld the plate to the back of the bike. This made it easier to track down what vehicles were used in a crime like a robbery. This practice was no longer being enforced, he said, so many criminals went on robbery or mugging sprees on rented bikes.
At an earlier press conference on Tuesday the DIG, flanked by Senior Supertinedent of Police (Investigations) Abdur Razzaque Cheema and Crimes Investigation Agency Superintendent of Police Umer Virk, said that 45 suspects wanted in 120 cases had been arrested and valuables worth Rs14 million recovered from them. They did not say when they were arrested. Most of the cases were registered in the current year, though some dated back to 2006.
The DIG said that the cases included five murders (including three of people killed for resisting robbers), six cases of injuring people for resisting robbers, a dacoity, 78 muggings, 15 robberies, and eight motorcycle or vehicle thefts. Two of the cases were in Islamabad.
The 45 suspects arrested for the crimes included seven proclaimed offenders and seven with criminal records. The police seized Rs11.89 million in cash, three tolas of gold, a diamond ring worth Rs500,000, 14 motorbikes, a Qing Qi rickshaw, two tractor trolleys, two laptops, two digital cameras, a movie camera and 19 mobile phones from the suspects.
The murder cases include the killing of Muhammad Akbar, a resident of Batapur, during a robbery near the BRB Canal; the murder of Hayat Floor Mill Sargodha cashier Ghulam Hassan during a robbery at the Upper Mall on July 27; and the killing of sweeper Bashir Masih at the HSY Studio in Gulberg 3.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 16th, 2011.