THE JHARKHAND STORY NETWORK
Daltonganj, Dec 31: Palamu police have issued its readable digital booklet titled ‘Achievements of the Police in 2023’.
It’s a mixed bag for the police. It has figures for rejoicing and taking lessons, too. It has highlighted some and left many.
Achievement profile
It has statistics and a gallery of photographs. The achievement profile is duly segmented into six categories, beginning with the number of cases registered in 2023, which is 3,321, down to the conviction of the criminals /naxals / accused of dowry crimes and NDPS.
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52 bikers would be thankful to police whose stolen bikes were recovered. One autorickshaw was also recovered, along with one pickup van and a Hywa.
2023 was the year of the ‘visible’ police in Palamu. Police neutralised many an attempt to foster communal hatred.
Communal harmony
Bishrampur could have erupted badly like Panki, but the police did well here. It maintained communal harmony with tact and diplomacy.
It would have been in the fitness of things if the achievement rolls of the police in 2023 referenced the unfolding /busting of the cybercrimes.
It is conspicuously silent when the police here in Palamu toiled hard to put on record their achievement in the cybercrime space. Even if it were in single digits, too, it would have given hope to many victims of cyber fraud. Police missed this opportunity to win the trust of the victims.
The outgoing year 2023 allows police to learn their figures and data. It writes about the recovery of 34.02 grams of heroin, 16.8 kgs of opium and 2,300 kgs of poppy straw.
Heroin recovery
Is this worth being cheerful, especially in the context of drugs where recovery for the heroin is, as per police own data, a bare 34.02 grams in 365 days?
There is a severe drug menace here, so much so that the principal district and sessions judge Palamu Niraj Kumar Srivastav had chaired a legal awareness camp on drug abuse and measures to tackle it.
There is just one conviction for seven years under the NDPS Act in Palamu. It is also a fact that recovery for drugs in Palamu has been more during the tenure of the SP Reeshma Ramesan.
There is a very close relation between prosecution filing of the police and court granting conviction.
In 10 murder cases, the civil courts granted the conviction of 12 criminals / naxals, out of which 4 get life imprisonment and 8 get 20 years imprisonment.
Dowry crimes
Similarly, in the dowry crimes, seven get ten years imprisonment, and five get three years imprisonment. There needs to be a figure or data on the Pocso cases for the year 2023 in the police achievement profile of 2023.
