Punjab Police to Use Social Media to Trace Gangsters, Reduce Criminal Activities
The DGP declared 47 gangsters to have arrested and recovered 183 weapons in 2017. The Delhi Police, Mumbai Police, Bangaluru Police and Goa Police have already made their debut on the social media platform.
Get on to social media, build your list and trace the criminals to thwart crime in Punjab. This is the New Year Resolution of Punjab Police to stop the gangsters through cyberspace. They aim to create Facebook, Twitter and YouTube accounts in order to have a direct interaction with the citizens and strive to provide timely responses to the queries. The accounts shall be launched this month, says Director General Punjab Suresh Arora in a report.
“The Police will follow the gangsters on social media, trace their IP addresses and will arrest them,” says Suresh Arora. He further adds that the number of gangsters have been caught up active in social media and updating their status from the jail. There is a lot of misinformation being spread across through unwelcoming elements. It cannot be overlooked when gangster-turned activist Lakhbir Singh named Lakha Sidhana claimed live-streaming from jail earlier, saying “everything” is accessible in jails. The DGP replied such accusations are taken seriously.
The DGP declared 47 gangsters to have arrested and recovered 183 weapons last year. Arora highlights their major achievements, counting the shattering of Terrorist Module in Moga on 8th November and the arrest of 5 criminals. The reach also steered in solving all the eight cases of targeted killings of activists and leaders of various organizations associated with the minority community that was pending over the past 2 years. He also adds that the dreaded gangsters and criminals shall from now be produced in the court through video conferencing only.
The police will also hunt the Khalistani groups on social media. Few of the Khalistani terrorists who were arrested recently revealed that they were in touch with the handlers in Pakistan and European countries using chat applications. Illegal exposure and healthy engagement with the citizens to secure nation’s peace is the ultimate objective of the force.
The Delhi Police, Mumbai Police, Bangaluru Police and Goa Police already made their debut on the social media platform. It is never too late because being vividly active on social media rightly has solved people’s problems. The constant traffic updates in the cities especially during insurgencies have made the life lot easy. The police presence on social media is robust as it also engages citizens with retweets, likes, shares and providing a space to bring out cases through what people posts.
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