Decrease in crime against women; Increase in recovery percentage of stolen property
 
SRINAGAR, MAY31 (PTK): Director General of Police, Dr. SP Vaid today released the annual edition of crime gazette for the year 2016 for which the data has been collected, tabulated and maintained by Crime Record Bureau, presented and released in the form of book.
Speaking on the occasion, DGP complemented the Crime Branch J&K for publishing the book which contains all the information with regard to crime statistics of the State, besides having a comparison with the corresponding year of 2015.
While addressing the senior officers who had gathered on this occasion, DGP said that there is an urgent need for creation of a section exclusively devoted to research and development needs of the police department. He said  that there is a need to re-orient some sections of the department so as to provide better service to the people.
Earlier in his introductory address, IGP Crime Sh. Alok Puri threw light on some statistics of the year 2016. He said that the crime gazette would help different wings of State police to access, analyse and evolve further strategies to improve upon their working.
On this occasion among others ADsG V.K Singh, Dilbag Singh and L. Mohanti, Is G Sh. A.G Mir, Sh. Rajesh Kumar, Sunil Kumar, Danesh Rana, Mubarak Ahmad Ganaie, J.P Singh, Surinder Gupta,.A Mujtaba, AIsG  Dr. Mohammad Haseeb Mughal, Sheikh Junaid Mehmood, Mubassir Latifi, Kulbir Singh, Abdul Waheed Shah,OSD PHQ Manoj Kumar Pandita and  Sr. ADO PHQ Nasir Ahmad Khan  were present.

Highlights of year 2016
 
Increased trend in the registration of crime cases  has been found in the year 2016(26,548 cases) as compared to the corresponding year of 2015 ( 25,269 cases ): increase of 1279 cases in the year 2016 which is  9.5 percent increase. This was due to hassle free registration of cases .
 
·        Decrease trend has been found in the disposal of cases by J&K  police   during the year 2016. As only 23,692 cases have been disposed of by the police as compared to the corresponding year 2015 (26,891 cases) i,e decrease of 3199 (8.8%)
 
·        Recovery percentage of stolen property during the year 2016 has increased by 5.88% (i,e 37.61% in 2015 and 43.49% in 2016. This also includes motor vehicle thefts.
 
·        Incidents related to crime against women have decreased during the year 2016 (i,e 2920 cases) as compared to 3539 cases during the year 2015.
 
·        Crime against women has dropped.805 cases of kidnapping/abduction have been reported in 2016 as compared to 1152 in 2015.
 
·        275 cases of rape have been reported in 2016 as compared to 315 in 2015. Similarly there has been decrease in eve teasing  cases from 215 in 2015 to 157 in 2016.
 
·        Molestation cases have also decreased from 1342 in 2015 to 1233 in 2016.
 
·        There has been an overall increase of 391 cases under Local and Special laws i,e (2118 cases) as compared to 1727 cases in the year 2015. This is due to the police initiation of taking preventive action.