Heinous crimes witnessed a slight decline in August when compared to July, amid mass mobilisation of police and enhanced checking at different entry and exit points of the city.
However, citizens of Rawalpindi do not feel ‘safer’, despite intensified checking due to the Azadi and Inqlab marches by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) respectively.
Though cases of car theft have declined thanks in part to some successful police efforts against car lifters, coupled with the Pakistan Army operation in Waziristan, which is considered a major ‘sales point’ for stolen vehicles, but car thefts remain an everyday activity.
According to statistics, a 40 per cent decline was recorded in car thefts during August, with 63 members of fifteen carjacking gangs busted. In August 2013, the police arrested 13 members of four gangs.
During first eight months of the current calendar year, 115 car lifting gangs were busted by the police, who claimed to have arrested 427 out of roughly 500 gang members.
Although a 32 per cent decline was reported in burglaries and robberies of houses and shops, gangs of youngsters did not miss any opportunity to snatch wallets, purses and even hold people at gunpoint in city markets.
A sharp decline was recorded in murder cases which stood at 45 percent.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 5th, 2014.
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