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Hyderabad Recorded 10% Reduction in Overall Crimes in 2020.

Hyderabad : Hyderabad Witnessed 10 per cent Reduction in overall crime during 2020 when compared with the previous year, a top police official said on Monday. The number of cases registered during 2020 were 22,641 against 25,187 cases in 2019, the city Commissioner of police Anjani Kumar told Media.

Crime cases against women and children also Reduced by 19 per cent and 35 per cent total of 2,354 cases of crime against women were registered in 2019. During this year, the cases Reduced to 1,908. Similarly, 221 cases under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act registered during this year decreased from 339 in 2019.

However, cyber crime cases Jumped with around 2,450 cases registered this year against over 1,400 cases booked last year. There is a Dip Reduction in occurrence of bodily and property offences like murders, rape, dacoity, culpable homicide, robbery, chain-snatchings, house break, thefts and other crimes, the top official said. Kumar attributed decrease in crime rate to measures, including initiation of Preventive Detention (PD) Act against 109 notorious repeat offenders, continuous criminal-tracking, intensive patrolling and installation of CCTV cameras.

With regard to traffic enforcement, a total of 54,35,892 cases were booked this year under relevant provisions of the MV Act and other Acts as against 58,66,795 last year.

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