Majority of cases pertain to women; Special team to trace them
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Vijayawada: Missing cases turned a hard nutshell to crack for the city police with nearly 800 persons from the city disappearing due to various reasons every year.
Nearly 600 missing cases where the victims are not traced are pending with the city police under various police station limits. The rise in missing cases has led police to put special concentration on it and form a special wing led by an ACP.
However, out of total 1,852 missing cases registered in the commissionerate limits since 2012 to April 30, 2015, as many as 1,282 cases were solved by police and the victims were traced. In 2015 alone, 304 persons went missing and 153 of them were traced.
According to police, most of the missing cases registered with police are of youngsters who elope from houses due to a love affair. To fasten the process of tracing out missing persons, a five member team led by a sub-inspector and ACP Srinivas Reddy was recently formed in the city police commissionerate.
The team of four constables is given five police stations each which takes up all the missing cases along with local police and helps them trace the missing persons at the earliest. “We would take up each and every missing case and follow it up along with the investigation officer. The task of the team is to trace missing persons using cellphone signals and others,” said SI, D. Shiva Shankar, who leads the team of head constables.
There is a rise in elopement cases among youngsters and also married persons and they are technically considered as missing and kidnapped depending on the complainant and the number of minor girls and boys missing reveals the same. Also there were no missing cases altered as human trafficking and kidnap cases. People suffering with mental illness, chronic diseases, children stressed by parents too go missing often.
( Source : dc )
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