Crime rate in Hyderabad comes down in 2021

Hyderabad: The overall crime rate in the city dipped by around 11. 5 per cent in 2021 with the police registering 20,012 cases this year, as against 22,641 cases last year. In 2019, the total number of cases booked stood at 25,187. However, while the overall crime rate went down, there has been a sharp […]

Hyderabad: The overall crime rate in the city dipped by around 11. 5 per cent in 2021 with the police registering 20,012 cases this year, as against 22,641 cases last year. In 2019, the total number of cases booked stood at 25,187. However, while the overall crime rate went down, there has been a sharp rise in cases related to cybercrimes.

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Hyderabad Police Commissioner Anjani Kumar, during the annual round-up meet on Wednesday, explained that crimes such as murder, homicide, murder attempts, grievous hurt, kidnapping, rioting, housebreaking, pseudo theft, house theft robbery and chain snatching have come down.

“Several initiatives were taken up by the police to bring down the crime rate including invoking PD Act against notorious criminals. Up-gradation of surveillance cameras network, use of technical tools and dynamic patrolling system also helped in bringing down the crime rate,” he further said.

Anjani Kumar said there are around 4,40,299 surveillance cameras installed in the city to help the 16,000 strong city police prevent and detect crimes. The year 2021 saw a big increase in cybercrime in the city. As against 1,379 cybercrime cases reported in 2020, the city police booked 5,646 cases of cybercrimes in 2021. These crimes pertained to UPI fraud, OTP fraud, dating, lottery, investment, gift parcel and other cybercrimes. “As more and more people are using technology for their daily transactions the criminals are also moving into cyberspace resulting in an increase in cybercrime cases,” said Anjani Kumar.

The Commissioner further said crime against women and children saw an increase as the police are encouraging the victims to come out and lodge complaints so that they can get justice and the criminals get punishment.

The traffic officials said that several measures were taken to bring down the accident rate in the city. In 2021, a total of 278 persons including 88 pedestrians were killed in road accidents in the city. Additional Commissioner (Traffic) Vijay Kumar said the traffic police are taking several initiatives including regular drunk driving checking and registering cases against those involved in rash driving.

The Commissioner explained that Hyderabad stood 18th in a survey of 19 important cities in the country recently in regard to the crime rate. “Other agencies and Union Home Ministry reports acknowledged that the initiatives of the city police are helping Hyderabad become a safe city,” he said. In the year ahead, the police are going to take up several new initiatives to further improve the policing and get closer to the communities to prevent crime.

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