MIRPUR: (Parliament Times)  The use of an excellent strategy coupled with sincere and stringent professional skills by Mirpur police led to the exceptional decline by 72 percent  in overall crimes rate reported in this  district during the outgoing year of 2016, it was officially told.
Unveiling the comparison, with a rapid decline even in the cases heinous crimes like murder 2016 with the previous years of 2015,  2014 and 2013 in Mirpur district, SSP Mirpur Raja Irfan Salim told this Correspondent here on Sunday that 25 murder cases were registered in 2013, 12 cases registered in 2014 and 11 murder cases registered in 2015. As a compared to these three previous years, only 7 murder cases were registered across the district in last year ending December 31, 2016, he added. These seven murder cases included a blind murder case – which was also unearthed coupled with the arrest of all the accuses involved in the case, he underlined.
Irfan Salim revealed   that under an extensive district-wise drive to eliminate the professional baggers, police rounded up a total of 2728 baggers from all over district and registered cases against them during last one year. The drive was aimed at to discourage the professional baggers from this immoral and unlawful activity besides to overcome the streets crimes reportedly emerged under the garb of the beggary, he pointed out.
The district police chief continued that similarly, there was also considerable decline in the crimes of dacoities during last year as compared to the previous years of 2013, 2014 and 2015 when three dacoity cases were reported in year 2013 and later one each case of dacoity was  reported and registered in 2014, 2015 and 2016. It was the major case of dacoity in the overall street crimes history of AJK in which the armed bandits had looted, in broad-day light, a money changer M/s. Fairdeal at Allama Iqbal Road in Mirpur escaping with over Rs. Nine million last year (2016). This  case was unearthed within a couple of weeks after the offence with the arrest of all the bandits involved in the offence besides the 100 percent recovery of the looted money, he underlined.
The SSP said that likewise, there had been exceptional decrease  in the crimes like burglary and theft reported  in the district during the year of 2016 when only 9 cases were reported and register as compared to 15, 16 and 25 cases of  burglary  registered during 2015, 2014 and 2013 respectively. Similar exceptional decrease was found in the theft cases last year of 2016 when only 80 theft cases were reported as compared to  113, 123 and 129 similar (theft) cases registered during  2015, 2014 and 2013 across the district, he added.
Irfan Salim disclosed that in overall such cases, a total of 26 inter-provincial bands of dacoits, burglars and thieves were busted and the total stolen property worth Rs. 32 million was recovered from the possession of all  121 arrested accused during the last year. The recovered stolen property included cash, gold ornaments, 18 cars and 28 motorbikes, mobile phones and other valuables.
The SSP said that in the wake of  extensive drive to net the drug paddlers, 301 accused were rounded up in 196 cases of drug trafficking registered in the district last years. Police recovered and confiscates 1577 bottles of illicit liquor, 5.125 kg of heroin and 43 kg of charas from the custody of the arrested accused, he said.
Irfan Salim continued that police also arrested 69 accused involved in holding illicit arms and recovered and seized  huge cache of unlicensed arms including pistols, revolvers, daggers, rifles and cartridges.
The SSP said that Mirpur police also rounded up a total of 312 proclaimed offenders from  various parts of AJK and outside. They were wanted to the local police for having been involved  different cases.
Irfan Salim underlined that 74 persons were arrested in 29 cases registered against them for having been involved in the obscene acts at the reported prostitution dens raided by the police in various parts of the district last year.
