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Cops play chor-police at DU

Faced with increased phone snatching cases in North Campus, this is Delhi Police's unique way to spread awareness on the modus operandi

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A group of students are busy chatting away outside Sriram College of Commerce (SRCC) when a well dressed woman, in her early 20s drives up in a white hatchback. Accompanied by a man, she then turns to a college student to borrow her phone to make an urgent call, claiming that her phone battery is dead. As soon as the student hands over the phone, the woman speeds away.

This sequence of events has been playing outside various colleges in Delhi University's North campus since recently. The woman is no criminal, in fact she is a cop. Faced with increased phone snatching cases in North Campus, this is Delhi Police's unique way to spread awareness on the modus operandi. As stunned students raise an alarm, a cop who is part of the act makes a chase for the car. On stopping the car, the woman steps out and informs the students that she is indeed a cop out to raise awareness about mobile phone thefts.

"The students' first reaction is absolute panic of course. But they calm down when we tell them we are cops. For a college going student, nothing is more precious than their phone. Phone snatching incidents that were taking place on various campuses gave us an idea to do this. We have been conducting these drives for a few days now, and cases of students handing over their phones to us have actually reduced," said a police officer at the Maurice Nagar police station.

Asked about the staged exercise, many DU students were left 'amused'. "We associate the police with a certain image, and I never thought that the police would come up with an idea like this," says Suhasini Khattar, a first year student.

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