The Commissioner of Police, Kamrup (Metro) has opined that public response towards the police has been overwhelming in 2017. Commissioner of Police, Hiren Chandra Nath said, “I had always appealed to the public to be just law-abiding citizens and their response was overwhelming this year,” adding that many international events had been organised in the city and there had been no crime reported during the events.
Events like Namami Brahmaputra, Ambubachi, Indian Super league (ISL), International T20 cricket match, FIFA World Cup Under-17 and International World Women’s Boxing were big challenges for the police. Yet, no untoward incident took place during the events, he said.
Regarding the stone-pelting incident on the Australian cricket team bus post the T20 India VS Australia cricket match, the Police Commissioner said, “We cannot stop crimes but the case has been solved and the culprits are behind bars.”
According to the city police chief, the police-public relationship has improved and people are very cooperative with the police.
Regarding corruption the Commissioner said, “Corruption has drastically decreased in the Police Commissionerate,” adding that corruption by police is hardly heard of in Guwahati these days.
The public is conscious about their rights and duties these days and have helped the police to maintain peace in the city, he opined.
Nath feels city crime scenario has improved this year
According to the observations made by the Commissioner of Police, the crime scenario has improved in Guwahati in 2017.
Commissioner of Police, Kamrup (Metro), Hiren Chandra Nath said, “Heinous crime has come down in the city,” adding that there was not even a single incident of eve-teasing reported this year.
Nath said that in the past eve-teasing cases used to be reported mostly from GS Road and RG Baruah Road but with increased police patrolling the incidents have decreased.
Talking about solving crime cases, the police commissioner said that all the sensational kidnapping cases were solved. He said, “95% kidnapped and trafficked victims were recovered safely.”
Crime against women on streets has drastically decreased, he claimed.
Talking about traffic related violations the commissioner said that 4,000 licenses were seized this year and around 200 licenses were suspended for violating various traffic norms.
Revenue generated by the traffic department from fines increased and around Rs 4 crores was recovered as fines this year.
Not much police infrastructure development this year
Developing the city police infrastructure is not in the hands of Commissioner of Police.
Commissioner of Police, Kamrup (Metro), Hiren Chandra Nath said, “Infrastructure development depends on the police headquarters and the state government,” adding that his responsibility is to better the policing system. Infrastructure comes later.
On enquiring what were his achievements this year in terms of police infrastructure development, the commissioner could not reveal much but said that land for the Geetanagar police station had been finalised. He said that the Geetanagar police station now stood on its own land which was not the case earlier.
He stated that he is trying his best to improve the infrastructure. For example, all city police vehicles used to be hired for many years, but he has ensured that the hired vehicles are changed every year. He said that he had asked the cab companies to provide sedans for the police and 30 sedan cars have been introduced in the city.
Nath also said that there will be many barracks constructed for the police personnel soon.
The officers do not have their own offices. Nath said that very soon all the DCPs and ACPs will have their own offices.
He further claimed that the Jalukbari and the Odalbakhra police outposts will soon be converted into police stations.
E-challan system will also be introduced very soon, according to him.
