Team Herald
PANJIM: An annual report released by Goa Police indicates that crime in the State, particularly heinous crimes, offences against women and thefts, declined in the last calendar year while the detection rate showed an impressive improvement.
The crime review report, circulated to the media on Saturday, reveals that overall crime decreased by 31.21 percent and detection increased by 12.98 percent. The police brass attributed this performance to good policing.
“In the year 2015, a total of 3072 IPC cases were reported as against 4466 cases in the corresponding period of 2014 year. The phenomenal decrease is due to better staffing, implementation of various preventive measures and continuous efforts made by districts and the units towards the hot pursuit of the criminals involved in this crimes,” the report stated.
Technical surveillance maintained on movements of criminals, helped police zero in on the identity of criminals. “Further effective preventive action has also been taken against habitual offenders,” it added.
The year 2015 saw 82.62 percent detection rate as against 69.64 percent for 2014, an increase by 12.98 percent.
The report mentioned that persistent efforts and pursuing even the slightest clues collected from the place of occurrence, solved many cases especially property offences wherein criminal were brought to book. “The effective step has resulted in the increase of detection rate,” it said.
As regards heinous crimes, 162 cases of which 151 cases were detected (93.21percent) as against 219 cases reported and 189 detected (86.30 percent) in 2014.
“This shows a noticeable decrease in crime by 26.03 percent and increase in detection rate by 6.91 percent,” the report mentioned.
The total theft cases reported were 784 cases, of which 439 cases were detected (55.99 percent) as against 2014 when 1517 cases were reported out of which 554 cases detected (36.52 percent). This recorded a decrease in crime by 48.32 percent and increase in detection rate by 19.48 percent. In all, 657 persons were arrested for thefts and burglary including chain snatching.
Similarly, crime against women also saw a decline as records show that 441 women related offences were registered of which 405 cases were detected (91.83 percent) whereas 2014 had 549 cases registered, of which 495 cases were detected (90.16 percent).
