Police tightening the vigil on rowdy
The police in West Zone and Coimbatore City have started tightening the vigil on rowdy elements and notorious criminals in the wake of instructions from the Chief Minister at the recently held conference at Chennai.In the wake of stray incidents of violence and attack on political party leaders by gangs known to be hooligans and henchmen, the Chief Minister had asked the police to evolve measures to contain the activities of rowdy elements.Police are preparing a list of rowdy elements, ex-convicts, history sheeters, habitual offenders and contract/hired killers.In Coimbatore City, City Police Commissioner, C.K. Gandhirajan has formed special teams for keeping tabs on notorious rowdy elements, if any. The officers and supervisory officers in charge of all the 15 police stations in the four sub-divisions have been asked to maintain vigil and report if at all there were gangs that acted as contract or hired killers.As against the 13 detentions during the previous year, Mr.Gandhirajan said that 83 persons had been detained in the last year, thus ensuring maintenance of law and order besides bringing down the crime rate by 22 per cent.
Inspectors and Assistant Commissioners have been asked to step up shadow watching of ex-convicts and notorious offenders and also to closely monitor convicts being released from prison.Officers have been asked to give impetus to the execution of pending non-bailable warrants so that notorious elements were not allowed to remain at large.A station-wise dossier on anti-social elements and notorious criminals was being prepared in every sub-division under the supervision of a Deputy Commissioner of Police, he said.The Inspector-General of Police, West Zone, K. Rajendran told The Hindu that the Commissioner of Police, Salem City and the Deputy Inspectors-General of Police of Salem and Coimbatore Range had been asked to direct the Superintendents of Police of Krishnagiri, Dharmapuri, Salem Rural, Namakkal, Erode, Coimbatore Rural and the Nilgiris districts to prepare a list of rowdy elements.
Mr.Rajendran said that in the last two years there had not been even a single incident of a murder by rowdy elements or hired/contract killers across the zone.A dossier of rowdy elements, ex-convicts and notorious criminals was being prepared and those listed classified as very bad, notorious and most notorious rowdy elements and officers of the respective jurisdiction had been asked to shadow watch these elements.Officers have been asked to visit the area once a week besides summoning the rowdy element to the police office once a week to keep tab on the livelihood of these rowdy elements to prevent them from taking to crime as their career.
The accountability and answerability for the activities of rowdy elements had been fixed on the Deputy Superintendents of Police and the Superintendents of Police.Every day the police have been asked to obtain a jail release list from the prison department to prevent rowdy elements from vanishing from the watchful eyes of the police to resurface in some other part of the State.Night rounds and marching of crime prevention beats had been stepped and these armed patrol teams had been asked to execute the pending non bailable warrants to ensure that notorious elements were not at large.
