Summary:
A string of murders and robberies have exposed chinks in the night patrolling measures.On Wednesday night, even as the police were on a high alert following a shocking murder of a banker in Kardhani, several streets of the city remained deserted. In a recent crime meeting at the police headquarters, home minister Gulab Chand Kataria had wondered if the night patrolling is being ditched in favour of digital monitoring. “A DSP level official is present to patrol a zone each night, an IPS level official oversees the entire patrolling operations each night,” he said.Several other officials of the police, however, said that lack of staff has created problems in patrolling. “Till 2015 there were over 900 home guards, but as of today there are only 112 at our disposal. On wee hours of Thursday, an attempt to rob an ATM was made at Mahapura..