Hyderabad:
The top brass of the Hyderabad beamed as they reported a drop in the number of crimes in the city in 2011 but with the increasing number of chain snatching has become a point to worry about.
With the gold price scaling new heights during the year, police found that even locking up known offenders didn't help; new vehicle borne thieves continued to crop up, explained police commissioner A K Khan in his yearned crime review press conference on Thursday.
Throughout 2011, the Hyderabad police dealt with a number of political agitations, but the one stir that got out of hand was the Telangana Million March which ended with the statues on Tank Bund being vandalised in full view of the police. The beginning and end of the year witnessed sensational murders: that of faction warlord Maddelacheruvu Suryanarayana Reddy in the first week of January and of Patlolla Goverdhan Reddy in December.
With nearly 4050 personnel retiring every month, the Hyderabad police are pinning their hopes on new recruitment to fill more than 2,600 posts of constables and 200 sub inspector posts in the coming days.
For 2012, Khan said his staff is pinning hope on development of new infrastructure.
To give a boost to the police communication system, they are awaiting for the Tetra Radio Trunking System and a integrated emergency communication system for coordination between all disaster management wings like Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, fire service, medical health and others. Three new women police stations are planned in the city.