Jammu Tawi, Jan 03: Director General of Police J&K, Dilbag Singh today released the annual edition of crime gazette of J&K Police for the year 2020 in the conference hall of Police Headquarters here. The crime gazette for which the data has been collected, tabulated and maintained by the Crime Record Bureau was prepared and presented in the form of the book under the chairmanship of Spl. DGP Crime, J&K A.K Choudhary.
In a statement issued, DGP J&K while unveiling the gazette congratulated the officers and officials of the State Crime Record Bureau of Crime Branch J&K, who remained associated with the compilation and publication of the gazette. He said that the gazette is traditionally a very useful documentation which has been continued with all seriousness. The DGP said that it gives an insight about the crime rates and trends for which the counter measures could be taken accordingly. He stressed on setting up a target date for completing the 2021 gazette.
The crime gazette highlights increasing and decreasing trends in the crime scenario in the UT during the year 2020 and also depicts the comparison of crimes to previous year i.e 2019. It is distributed among the Police officers so that they could analyse the trend and plan their strategies accordingly. As per the gazette, a total of 28936 cases were registered under various heads of crime under IPC/LSL in J&K UT during the year 2020 as against 25072 cases during the corresponding year 2019, which shows an overall increase of 15.41% in the total registration during the year 2020. The Crime Rate for the year 2020 remained at 216.90 for per lakh population as against 189.41 for year 2019.
Spl DGs, R. R Swain, A.K Choudhary, ADGsP, Mukesh Singh, M. K. Sinha, Danesh Rana, IGP Alok Kumar, AIsG of PHQ, senior officers of Crime Branch, J&K were present on the occasion.
