'Mangaluru cops took concerted action in cases related to illegal sand mining, drugs'

MANGALURU: Mangaluru Police while handling the frontlines against the global pandemic, has cracked down on illegal sand mining and drugs in a big way during July and August. Laying down this fact in a press communique, city police commissioner Vikash Kumar on Monday said that Mangaluru City Police had taken up concerted action in these two types of crime across the city commissionerate limits.
Raids carried out within police station limits, either in tandem with the department of mines and geology or suo moto, in the two months saw police register 13 cases and arrested 10 people for illegal mining, storage, and transportation of sand.Police seized 14 vehicles used to transport sand alongwith two dredging machines, Vikash Kumar said adding that the total value of property seized by the jurisdictional police in these cases is worth Rs 71.28 lakh.
Likewise, in action initiated under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS) in the above months, city police registered six cases and arrested 10 people for possession and sale of drugs valued at Rs 14.80 lakh. Vikash Kumar said that the city police despite the constraints imposed on it by the pandemic have not lost sight of its basic policing duties and will continue to crack down on all illegal activities in the days ahead.
This was amplified in the regular crackdown that the city police have initiated against gambling amidst the pandemic as reported in these columns on Tuesday. Vikash Kumar said that barring enforcing a total crackdown on drunk-driving cases since phase I of unlock when liquor stores opened up for business in that it potentially could expose personnel from traffic police to the coronavirus, city police are paying serious attention to all other forms of crimes.