Hyderabad: With the New Year just around the corner, the city police had some good news for Hyderabadis. Overall, crime in the city saw a dip for the third straight year, Hyderabad police commissioner Anjani Kumar reported on Wednesday.
The current year saw 20,012 cases in all, Anjani Kumar said, down from 22,641 in 2020, which was fewer than the 25,187 cases registered in the city in 2019.
That the city turned a little more peaceful for its people, was announced at the feet of the Lord Buddha statue in the middle of Hussainsagar, with Anjani Kumar, accompanied by senior city police officials, addressing a press conference on the Gibraltar Rock platform.
Underlining the continuous monitoring on reporting cases, and close vigil on the movement of people who previously committed crimes, and suspects, Anjani Kumar said there was a significant decrease in the occurrence of bodily and property offences. The decrease was seen in the reported cases of dacoities, culpable homicides, robberies, chain snatchings, robberies, house breaks, people posing as police officials, thefts, and other crimes.
“The rate of detection of property crime by the Hyderabad city police is at 63 per cent, with a recovery rate of 54 per cent despite a 34 per cent vacancy rate. This is an achievement considering the fact that during the entire year, the city police was very busy serving people during the second wave of Covid-19, performing regular law and order duties, overseeing peaceful conduct of festivals, and public meetings,” he said.
However, there was a slight increase in cases of cheating, other thefts, murder, and rape compared to 2020.
Anjani Kumar explained: “This increase can be attributed to the efforts and special drives conducted by the police to create awareness among the people on sexual assault cases, and as a result, more victims started reporting the cases to police. In 90 per cent of rape cases, the accused was known to the victim and relatives.”
With respect to convictions, the Hyderabad police achieved a conviction rate of 81 per cent during 2021, against 41 per cent in 2019.
On the overall decrease of crime, Anjani Kumar said initiation PD Act proceedings against 205 criminals, continuous criminal tracking, aided on this front. As many as 3,562 offenders were checked 95,388 times, 1,680 history sheeters were checked 45,352 times. At least 123 patrol cars and 251 blue colts bikes performed patrolling round the clock in three shifts, and a whopping 1,99,873 Dial 100 calls were attended to by the patrol staff.
Box: The number of cases registered during the year 2021 are 20, 012 as against 25,187 cases in 2019. In 2020, a total number of cases were 22,641.
Crime heads and cases:
| 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | |
| Murder of gain | 3 | 3 | 7 |
| Dacoity | 13 | 5 | 11 |
| Robbery | 107 | 75 | 69 |
| House Break | 318 | 273 | 288 |
| Other thefts | 2253 | 1608 | 2042 |
| Murder | 84 | 64 | 85 |
| Rape | 281 | 265 | 328 |
| Rioting | 34 | 18 | 9 |
| Kidnap | 320 | 211 | 192 |
| Hurts | 1508 | 1093 | 1243 |
| Cheating | 1668 | 083 | 1528 |
Jail time
The city police succeeded in securing conviction and sentencing for long periods of time.
- One sentenced to 30 years imprisonment in a case
- One sentenced to spend 25 years in jail
- Nine persons were sentenced to 20 years in nine cases
- 10 sentenced to life imprisonment in nine cases
- 10 sentenced to 10 years in jail in 10 cases
- In 19 cases, the convicts were sentenced to three years and more.
