Figures show that 2011 was a poor year in the matter of detection (when the police discover information about crimes) compared with 2010 and 2009.
It is a double whammy of sorts for Bangaloreans: while crime has gone up in the city, the crime detection rate has dropped.
Figures show that 2011 was a poor year in the matter of detection (when the police discover information about crimes) compared with 2010 and 2009. Except in cases of murder for gain and cheating, the city police reported a decline in detection in all other kinds of common crimes.
For example, till 30 November 2011, only 200 of the 414 robbery cases reported in the city had been solved. This detection rate (48 per cent) compares poorly with the rate for 2010 (68 per cent). In cases of dacoity, the detection rate for 2011 was 74 per cent. The corresponding figure for 2010 was 92.4 per cent.
And the rate of detecting crimes, solving cases and convicting criminals went down last year despite the city getting two joint commissioners (crime). In 2010, the present DGP and IGP of Karnataka police, Shankar M Mahadeva Bidari, was commissioner of police for Bangalore city and there was only one joint commissioner of police (crime), Alok Kumar.
Deputy commissioner of police (south) Sonia Narang said cases of crime had not increased in the city and it was just that the police had started receiving more complaints from people — even though many of these complaints were not fit to be registered and could have been solved without making a formal accusation. “Some people file false complaints to claim insurance,” said Narang.
If that is true, DNA has a simple question: did the police take any action against the misleading complainants under IPC Section 197 or 198?
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