Pramesh S Jain & Dr.Thomas (Special Correspondent)
The Director General and Inspector General of Police, Alok Mohan said that the focus will be given to the cyber crime cases this year as 25 per cent out of total cases registered across the state and 10 per cent out of total number of cases registered in the city are related to cyber crimes.
Speaking after the review meeting with the senior officials here on Wednesday,Mr.Alok Mohan,said that considering the growing number of cyber crimes and narcotics,the department is working towards capacity building,augmentation of resources and training of all police personnel to investigate cyber crime cases.
The department is also aiming for the narcotics free state and working towards to achieve the goal,he added .
“Its a daily war“waged by the police personnel against narcotics,Organized crime and anti social elements.
“There was no deadline set to tackle this problem,the police officials have been instructed to act immediately and not allow any crime to flourish”,he said .
Replying to a question about the strength of the police personnel,Mr.Alok Mohan said that the city has around 20,000 police personnel for the city with 1.2 crore population to maintain law and order .
It is not about the number but quality and efficiency that matters,he said referring to famous quote “you don’t win war by numbers”.
In order to tackle the growing drug menace effectively, additional posts of senior police officials have been created to supervise investigation and taking them to logical end.
The CID is also training police officials on capacity building exercise to ensure that all police officials in the next six months time could be capable of investigate cyber crimes.
Mr.Alok Mohan,appreciated the traffic management in city and said that situation is good under control, handling well despite increasing in number of vehicles in the city.
The tolerence for moral policing is zero and every accused involved in the case related to this incident have been arrested.
There is a zero tolerance approach in this regard and there is no question of sparing anyone involved in moral policing incidents,he said.