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Key Highlights of the Report on State of Policing and Law & Order in Delhi

December 2015

Crimes statistics

Specific Crimes reported in 2014

Total Number of cases

(A)

Total Number of Crimes from each FIR

(B)Difference between ‘A’

and ‘B’

% Difference between ‘A’ and

‘B’Murder ( Section 302) 533 553 20 4%

Attempt to murder Section 307) 768 861 93 11%

Rape (Section 376) 1818 1889 71 4%

Gang rape (Section 376D) 144 154 10 6%

Assault on Women with Intent to Outrage her Modesty (Section 354) 2667 3072 405 13%

Riots (Sections 147 to 151 and 153A) 153 474 321 68%

Kidnapping / Abduction (Sections 363, 364A, 365, 366-369) 7186 8023 837 10%

Cheating (Sections 419 and 420) 4479 4927 448 9%

Burglary (Day and Night) (Sections 454 and 457) 10281 10442 161 2%

Snatching (Section 356) 7170 7285 115 2%

Robbery (Sections 392 to 394, 397 and 398) 6396 7483 1087 15%

Dacoity (Section 395) 71 78 7 9%

Rash driving (Section 279 read with 337 & 338) 10373 10373 0 0%

Hurt (Section323) 4528 7771 3243 42%

Grievous Hurt (Sections 325,326, 326A, and 326B) 563 680 117 17%

Theft (Sections 379 to 382) 74921 92995 18074 19%

Extortion (Sections 384 to 389) 235 346 111 32%

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Crime against women

• Alarming 2043 total cases of rape reported in 2014, including 1889 rapes

(u/s IPC 376), 154 gang rapes (u/s IPC 376-D). 1889 rapes also includes

687 cases of rape of minors (u/s 376 IPC with 3 to 10 Posco Act)

• Five rape cases were reported daily

• 3072 cases reported of Assault on Women with Intent to Outrage her

Modesty

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Highest Crime reported district wise

Specific Crime2014

District OccurrenceMurder Outer 84Attempt to murder North East 111Rape South 241Assault on the woman to outrage her modesty South 414Riot North East 30

Kidnapping/Abduction Outer 1207Cheating South 561

Burglary (Day/Night) Outer 1818Snatching West 1279Robbery North East 1278Dacoity North West 12Rash Driving South 1378Hurt East 938Grievous Hurt North West 78Thefts Outer 10071Extortion East 38

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Rank-wise shortfall of Police Personnel (as of 31st December 2014)

Designation Sanctioned Working

Difference between Sanctioned and

Working

% Difference between

Sanctioned and Working

Commissioner of Police (C.P.) 1 1 0 0%SPL. Commissioner of Police (C.P.) 10 14 4 40%Joint Commissioner of Police (Jt. C.P.) 20 22 2 10%ADDL. Commissioner of Police (C.P.) 19 12 -7 -37%Deputy Commissioner of Police (D.C.P.) 107 78 -29 -27%Assistant Commissioner of Police (A.C.P.) 348 224 -124 -36%Police Inspector (P.I.) 1350 1317 -33 -2%Police Sub - Inspector (P.S.I.) 6111 5620 -491 -8%

Assistant Police Sub-Inspector (A.S.I)

6752 6543 -209 -3%

Head Constable (H.C.) 20817 18994 -1823 -9%Police Constable (P.C.) 46707 44258 -2449 -5%

Total 82242 77083 -5005 -6%

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Conviction rate in 2014

Cases reported during the year Cases Charge-sheeted Cases convicted (%) of Conviction

Rate

HEINOUS CRIME (Cases including dacoity, murder, attempt to murder, robbery, riot, kidnapping & abduction total, rape)

17301 5346 919 17%

Other IPC

138353 32195 10447 32%

Overall

155654 37541 11366 30%

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Key Highlights-Conviction rates

• ACPs oversee investigation of heinous crime (shortfall of

36%)

• Conviction rate in heinous crime was 17% in 2014

• Low conviction Rate due to poor investigation; observation

by courts

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Police Complaints Authority

• Established as part of the Police reforms recommended by Supreme Court

• Complaints against Police received from Public at DCP office

• Investigation Officer conducts preliminary enquiry

• Departmental enquiry initiated if complaint substantial

• Complaints of heinous crimes directly sent for FIR

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Complaints against PoliceName of District Total number

of complaints received

against Police personnel

Complaints closed without

inquiry.

Complaints in which

‘Departmental Inquiries’ were

initiated

Complaints in which ‘Departme

ntal Inquiries’ were completed

Complaints in which ‘FIR's’

were registered against the

police officer/s concerned

Complaints in which ‘Charge-

sheets’ were filed against the police

officer/s concerned

Central District 1438 0 no separate record no separate recordno separate

recordno separate

recordWest District 675 0 9 4 12 8East District 508 0 1 0 3 1Outer District 136 0 8 2 3 0

New Delhi District 288 0 0 0 1 0North District 1599 0 2 1 0 0

North East District 3012 0 3 2 0 0

North West District 1976 0 3 0 1 0South District 2103 0 1 0 9 0

South East District 1137 0 5 1 1no separate

record

South West Districtno separate

record no separate

record 14 3 6 0Total 12872 0 46 13 35 9

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Highlights-Allegation-wise breakdown of Complaints against Police personnel in 2014

District Name

Non-registration of cases

Beating Corruption Improper investigation

Misbehaviour Inaction by police

Sexual harassment of women

Torture False case

Other

Central District 30 23 175 25 47 0 156 7 58 -

South District 49 51 162 98 527 234 10 55 99 818

South East

District 4 40 281 5 7 46 36 4 11 -

New Delhi

District

10 18 41 12 23 58 0 0 0

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cheating- 1; haressment-32; threat-29

East District

31 110 0 0 -

Beating +Torture +Harassment + Misbehavior = 180

Inaction by police+ Improper investigation= 187

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Key Highlights- Complaints against Police

• 12,872 total complaints received from Public; Second highest after cases

of theft in Delhi

• Least number of Complaints against police was filed in Outer district,

which is also the district which has high number of registered crimes

• Highest number of 12 FIR’s was also filed against the police personnel

concerned in the West district and out of those Charge-sheets were filed

in 8 cases

• Only 46 departmental enquiries were initiated

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Deliberations

Name of MPsNo. of Question asked on

crime issues Total questions askedMeenakshi Lekhi 4 107Maheish Girri 8 127Manoj Tiwari 0 5Parvesh Sahib Singh 1 30Ramesh Bidhuri 2 23Udit Raj 2 42Total 17 334

Note: Harsh Vardhan is a Union Minister for Science & Technology & Earth Sciences so, cannot ask questions

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Key highlights- Issue wise Deliberations

Issues No. of question asked

Court/Judiciary Related 5

Cyber Crime 2

First Information Report (FIR) 1

Human Resources Related 3

Legal System Related 2

Police Station Infrastructure 1

Women Issues Related 2

Scheme/Polices 1

Total 17

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State Security Commission (SSC) For NCT, Delhi

• Constituted on 10th January, 2011• Autonomous body recommended by SC (Prakash Singh case)• Aimed at systemic Police reforms• To act as a buffer between the political executive and the police• Composition-

Lt. Governor, Chief Minister of Delhi, Commissioner of Police, Leader of Opposition, other functionaries and independent members

• Met only 5 times since formation• Last meeting on September 2013• Not formed after the new Delhi government

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What needs to be done

• Separation of Investigation and Law & Order functions of the Police

• Constitution of State Security Commission (SSC)

• MPs of Delhi need to raise the issue of crime, policing and law &

order more frequently

• Police complaint authority needs to be strengthened and prompt

action should be taken on the complaints

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Thank You