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Delhi Police made a change in strategy for crime control in 2020. Instead of relying on the number of FIRs it registered, police commissioner S N Shrivastava made PCR calls — which police have no control over — the parameter for judging the crime scenario in any area of the city. The conclusion: the number of PCR calls in the year of the Covid declined by 38% against the figure in 2019.

A total of 6,370 bogus calls were made to the Police Control Room (PCR) in 2007, keeping the sleuths on their toes.

In 2022, the festival was celebrated on March 17 and 18, and a total of 11,614 PCR calls were received on two days, it said, adding that the festival was celebrated on March 28 and 29 last year and the total calls received on these two days were 14,371.

The number of calls made to the police control room about street crimes like snatchings and robberies has reduced substantially while registration of such crimes has gone up at the same time, police data shows. This is significant for two reasons. A reduction in PCR calls reflects low crime rate, while registration of FIRs mean station house officers no longer strive to artificially keep crime figures low or 'under control'.

New Delhi residents are questioning the effectiveness of police efforts to combat snatching, as the number of PCR calls far exceeds registered cases. While police data indicates a decline in snatching incidents over the years, a significant number of cases go unreported due to victims avoiding the hassle of filing reports.

The Delhi Police's control room vans have been instrumental in saving lives by transporting injured people to hospitals. In the past six months, they have taken around 80 injured people to hospitals daily, bringing the total to 16,199. They have also recovered 474 stolen vehicles and located 435 missing children. The performance audit review prompted the restoration of the control room as a separate unit, resulting in improved response times and the deployment of mobile patrolling vehicles in crime hotspots. The PCR unit has also apprehended 64 criminals and conducted various humanitarian activities, including saving people from suicide and rescuing animals.

A Delhi man faked a mobile phone snatching to avoid his wife's anger after losing his phone while intoxicated. Police investigated the reported incident, finding no evidence of a snatching. The complainant later admitted to fabricating the story to escape a scolding.

Health minister Satyendar Jain on Friday said Delhi government would take a decision on night curfew keeping in mind the trend of positivity rate of Covid-19 cases, which is declining.

A year after the riots, the crime situation in North East district seems to have improved substantially. Data compiled by police shows a dip in snatching and robbery cases, the two prime indicators of street crime in a city, in 2020 compared with the previous year.

The Delhi Police registered 2,66,070 cases under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) in 2020, a drop of more than 15 per cent as against 2019, officials said on Friday. While there was a decline in the number of crimes against women, cases of snatching and robbery increased in the national capital, they said.

The Gurgaon municipal commissioner on Friday appealed to police to deploy at least one PCR van with each sweeping machine and vehicle collecting garbage in the city.

After beds and oxygen, Karnataka is now suffering from an acute shortage of Covid-19 testing kits, and it is hurting the fight against the pandemic.

Top cop claims murders, robberies and rape on decline.

The Union health ministry has finally come out with a revised set of guidelines on domestic travel, advising states to exempt fully-vaccinated travellers from the need to furnish a negative RT-PCR test or RAT report on entry.

A decline in the state’s number of Covid tests per million population has drawn the attention of experts at both the Centre and the state.

Delhi Police had a big exposure to technology in 2021. While the facility to lodge online complaints was launched by police chief Rakesh Asthana, as was the e-FIR to report burglaries, the capital’s police force also took steps to use drones and artificial intelligence in policing. The year saw groundwork being done to implement the use of predictive policing and machine learning to curb crime.

For the first time in nearly three months, the number of Covid patients under treatment in Kolkata fell below the 5,000 mark even as the statewide tally of active cases hit a 19-week low. While recognizing that the data indicated steady progress in the state's fight against the pandemic, doctors have cautioned that there is no room for complacency and called for more RT-PCR tests to prevent any slippage.

If you have fever, breathlessness and low oxygen saturation, you may have Covid even if the swab tests come negative, say doctors.

Two Bangladeshi men have reported being sexually assaulted by five men in a park in east Delhi's Shakarpur. The victims, who identified as LGBTQ, had met a man on a gay dating app who later brought two more individuals to the park. When the victims declined their advances, they were physically attacked and sexually assaulted. Police have arrested three men after analyzing footage from over 50 CCTV cameras.

Sudhir Jadav, 50, a resident of Prabhat Chowk, succumbed at Civil Hospital on Friday morning. “His RT-PCR report was negative. But he had developed extreme breathlessness on Thursday night. We called EMRI 108 at 9 pm to hospitalize him and were told to wait.

The chilling and unsolved murders of journalist Soumya Vishwanathan and call centre executive Shalini Saxena notwithstanding, there were fewer crimes against women in 2008.