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The metropolis constabulary arrested 42 persons successful transportation with 44 spot offences nether assorted heads during December 2025 and recovered stolen spot worthy ₹56.77 lakh.
Commissioner of Police Shankabratha Bagchi hands implicit recovered golden jewellery to a pistillate during the Monthly Crime Mela successful Visakhapatnam connected Saturday. | Photo Credit: V. RAJU
Addressing a property league arsenic portion of the Monthly Crime Mela, Commissioner of Police Shankabratha Bagchi said that 77 spot offence cases were reported successful the metropolis during December 2025. Special constabulary teams utilized method and analytical methods to analyse the cases and detected 44 of them, starring to the apprehension of 42 offenders.
He said that spot worthy ₹56,77,800 was recovered successful these cases. Apart from this, 336 missing mobile phones valued astatine ₹50.40 lakh were besides traced and returned to their owners. The full worth of spot recovered during the period stood astatine ₹1.07 crore.
Mr. Bagchi said that the 44 detected cases included 1 robbery, 3 location break-ins by day, 2 location break-ins by night, 1 snatching case, 1 autobus theft and 15 motorcycle theft cases, among others.
The recovered spot included 290 grams of gold, 301 grams of metallic and ₹1.72 lakh successful cash.
As portion of preventive measures, 168 CCTV cameras were installed astatine assorted locations crossed the metropolis during December 2025. The transgression helping officers besides conducted 178 transgression meetings to make consciousness among the nationalist astir antithetic types of crimes and the value of installing CCTV cameras.
The Commissioner said that peculiar patrolling was conducted successful crime-prone areas during some time and night. Drone surveillance was besides continued successful isolated areas to show transgression movements and amerciable activities.
According to the metropolis police, a full of 8,875 mobile phones worthy ₹13.31 crore person been recovered truthful acold done the chatbot-based stolen oregon mislaid mobile betterment programme. The constabulary urged citizens to study mislaid oregon stolen mobile phones done the Central Equipment Identity Register (CEIR), an online strategy of the Department of Telecommunications that helps artifact and hint missing mobile phones utilizing their IMEI numbers, thereby preventing misuse and improving the chances of recovery.
