Crime: 5,476 cases registered in two months
Police claims that street crime has notably increases over time across the district.
FAISALABAD:
As many as 5,476 criminal cases have been registered by the police in 2012 so far.
Police claims that street crime has notably increases over time across the district.
Of the cases registered in the two months, 87 were murder, 67 abduction, 412 robbery and 90 dacoity. Police record has revealed that 260 motorcycles and 16 cars were snatched from the people, while three gold 3 jewellery shops, three weaving factories and two mills were looted.
In robberies and dacoities, as many as 20 people, including four women, were injured, police record states. Cases were registered against 655 people for drug dealing and 533 for carrying illegal weapons, police said.
Sadiq Dogar, senior superintendent of police (Operations) told The Express Triune that record suggested that crime rate across the district was increasing.
He said that police have set up a monitoring cell that worked round the clock.
He said the cell had been set up owing to the increasing number of complaints of street crime.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 4th, 2012.
As many as 5,476 criminal cases have been registered by the police in 2012 so far.
Police claims that street crime has notably increases over time across the district.
Of the cases registered in the two months, 87 were murder, 67 abduction, 412 robbery and 90 dacoity. Police record has revealed that 260 motorcycles and 16 cars were snatched from the people, while three gold 3 jewellery shops, three weaving factories and two mills were looted.
In robberies and dacoities, as many as 20 people, including four women, were injured, police record states. Cases were registered against 655 people for drug dealing and 533 for carrying illegal weapons, police said.
Sadiq Dogar, senior superintendent of police (Operations) told The Express Triune that record suggested that crime rate across the district was increasing.
He said that police have set up a monitoring cell that worked round the clock.
He said the cell had been set up owing to the increasing number of complaints of street crime.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 4th, 2012.