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Camouflaged cops to take on chain snatchers
The Cyberabad police are all set to deploy 55 armed anti-snatching teams who will not only ‘spot and intercept’ chain-snatchers, but also fire at the offenders if they attack the policemen.
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Hyderabad: The Cyberabad police are all set to deploy 55 armed anti-snatching teams who will not only ‘spot and intercept’ chain-snatchers, but also fire at the offenders if they attack the policemen.
“We have formed 55 armed anti-snatching teams comprising two police personnel each who can fire in self-defence if they come under attack by chain-snatchers,” said Cyberabad police commissioner C V Anand.
“The team members will also soon get a special mobile phone application that will provide database (photos) of chain-snatching offenders from across the country,” he said.
“The offenders sometimes may be armed. If the offenders attack the cops, they can retaliate by opening fire in self-defence,” Anand explained.
These motorbike-borne teams would be deployed in 10 days at different hot spots of Cyberabad Police Commissionerate where most chain-snatching cases were reported.
“We have selected young recruits from the Armed Reserve and Civil Police. We have given them hire charges for their bikes. They will be using their own bikes and they will be camouflaged. They will move around like ordinary citizens in plain clothes and one cannot make out if they are constables. I am sure their presence will act as deterrence,” the Commissioner said.
