Summary:
SURAT: Police have started taking several steps in a focused manner to tackle the menace of thefts, loots and chain-snatchings on city roads. Some instructions have been issued to city cops. Persons arrested multiple times for mobile loots and thefts could be jailed under Prevention of Anti-Social Activities Act (PASA). Police can check any suspicious person and one will have to produce papers to prove that the mobile phone is his or hers. Senior officers have asked cops to increase frequency of patrolling on motorcycles in the areas where maximum number of loots had been reported of late..