07 January,2009 10:07 AM IST | | Amit Singh
Frequesnt police transfers fuel crime in satellite township
Noida has seen six senior superintendents of police (SSP) in less than two years. A fact, criminals in this satellite township are cashing in on. The top cops are shunted out even before they understand the problems in the city, thus failing to curb Noida's rising crime graph.
Since the notorious Nithari case, which rocked the Capital in 2007, Noida has witnessed six SSPs, who were transferred even before they could understand the security lapses. The latest in line was RK Chaturvedi, who was tranferred in the first week of January this year,u00a0 after about a five-month term. While Noida has got a new SSP, Naveen Arora, criminals are making full use of this gap.
Rising crime
A few days ago, a person was shot dead in the busy Atta Market area. Soon after the new SSP took over this month, a Delhi University student was kidnapped by her friends while she was shopping in the same market with her mother.
Where are CCTVs?
Other than frequent changes in the police team, Noida has a reputation of not fulfilling safety promises. Though Noida authorities come up with plans to curb crime, they are not executed on time.
The plan to install survelliance cameras at all crucial junctions in the city has been in the pipeline for the last many months. A proposal to that effect was forwarded to the higher authorities long ago but the time period for such installation is still not clear.
Servants on the run
The Noida Police had decided to make the verification of domestic helps compulsory. Posters regarding this drive were also circulated. But the ground reality is different.u00a0
Superintendent of Police, Noida (City), Ashok Tripathy, said, "It's very difficult to implement all the security measures at one go. In the servant verification drive, we are progressing with the help of Residents' Welfare Associations (RWA). The residents of Noida lack awareness so the project is going slow. Although a verification cell has been formed but we have not received many requests."
However, the president of the Sector 19 RWA, RC Gupta, blamed the police for the cell's inappropriate functioning.
"We had only one meeting with the superintendent of police. No serious steps have been taken regarding the drive. When we go to the cell to collect verification forms, it is generally out of stock," Gupta said.
