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Bhubaneswar: The commissionerate police have set “targets” for inspectors of every police station in the capital city in order to speed up ongoing investigations of criminal cases.
Sources said twin-city Police Commissioner Dr Rajendra Prasad Sharma has asked the inspectors to be more “watchful” and given them “certain targets” for the next one month after the recent spurt in criminal incidents in the city.
According to an inspector-rank official, the police commissioner was unhappy over the slow progress in the investigation of several cases. The target, he said, was given to the inspectors at a crime meeting held at commissionerate police office November 27.
Several criminal cases that created sensation in the state capital in recent months have remained unsolved. Earlier in November, unidentified miscreants robbed a realtor of cash worth Rs 15 lakh in broad daylight outside a nationalised bank near Laxmisagar Square here. Police are also yet to crack the September 21 loot of Rs 15 lakh from an employee of a private company at KIIT Square in broad daylight.
In the KIIT Square incident, one Biranchi Narayan Barik was going to deposit cash in a bank at Kanan Vihar near Patia when two bike-borne miscreants waylaid his motor-cycle behind Big Bazaar mall and looted the cash from him. Police suspect that the Laxmisagar loot might have been committed by the same gang.
Similarly, two miscreants had looted cash worth Rs 2.5 lakh from a man in Sahid Nagar area a couple of days back after throwing “biscuit water” at him. This case also remains unsolved.
“I have directed the inspectors to be more watchful. Inspectors of all the police stations here have been given targets for the next one month. At the end of the month, I will take note of how many pending cases have been closed by them,” Sharma told Orissa POST.
