Chandigarh, Dec 19 (IANS) The city police are seeking the help of local people, resident and market welfare associations, to curb organised crime, a senior police official said here Saturday.
”In a bid to keep a tab on organized crime, police have been engaged in a series of meetings with local people, resident and market welfare associations. We are getting full cooperation from all walks of life,” Chandigarh senior superintendent of police S.S. Srivastava said.

”Chandigarh is home to a large number of key government and private offices, institutions and vital installations of Punjab, Haryana and the Union Territory itself, within its area of 114 km, inhabited by more than 11 lakh people. This makes policing here qualitatively more difficult and strenuous,” he said.

He added that despite all the constraints, the city police have achieved almost cent percent success rate in solving the cases related to organized crime in the last few years.

According to police records, in 2006, all Arms Act cases, 179 out of 181 cases under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, all cases of gambling, 295 of the 297 excise cases and 101 of the 110 cases under miscellaneous acts were solved.

”This trend followed in the subsequent years,” quipped Srivastava.

In 2009 up to Nov 30, 221 cases were registered and solved under the Excise Act against 212 during the corresponding period last year. However, 65 cases were registered and solved under the NDPS Act and 133 under Gambling Act whereas the numbers of such cases in the corresponding period of 2008 were 87 and 209.