Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 3: Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbag Singh today released the annual edition of crime gazette of J&K Police for the year 2020 in the conference hall of Police Headquarters here.
The crime gazette for which the data has been collected, tabulated and maintained by the Crime Record Bureau was prepared and presented in the form of the book under the chairmanship of Special DGP Crime, J&K AK Choudhary.
Special DGs, RR Swain, AK Choudhary, ADGPs, Mukesh Singh, MK Sinha, Danesh Rana, IGP Alok Kumar, AIGs of PHQ and senior officers of Crime Branch, J&K were present on the occasion.
DGP J&K while unveiling the gazette said that it gives an insight about the crime rates and trends for which the counter measures could be taken accordingly. He stressed on setting up a target date for completing the 2021 gazette.
DGP directed for organizing fortnightly meetings between PHQ officers and district officers and also between PHQ officers and Wing offices so that issues pertaining to various unit of police are discussed and subsequently addressed in a desired fashion in a result oriented manner.
He directed the officers to analyze the 2021 work and plan their strategies as to what they are going to achieve in the current year. He also directed a series of measures to be taken for better policing and better results.
Earlier, the Special DGP Crime, J&K in his welcome address briefed the DGP regarding the crime Gazette and how it would benefit the J&K Police investigating officers.
The ADGP, Jammu Zone, Mukesh Singh and ADGP Headquarters, PHQ, MK Sinha on the occasion also gave valuable suggestions for policing and extending police service to the people.
The crime gazette highlights increasing and decreasing trends in the crime scenario in the UT during the year 2020 and also depicts the comparison of crimes to previous year i.e 2019. It is distributed among the police officers so that they could analyse the trend and plan their strategies accordingly.
As per the gazette, a total of 28936 cases were registered under various heads of crime under IPC/LSL in J&K UT during the year 2020 as against 25072 cases during the corresponding year 2019, which shows an overall increase of 15.41 per cent in the total registration during the year 2020. The Crime Rate for the year 2020 remained at 216.90 for per lakh population as against 189.41 for year 2019.
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