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A slew of pro-active steps taken by Madurai District Police person helped to trim the fig of sedate offences during 2025 erstwhile compared to the erstwhile year. While the agrarian parts of Madurai had reported 168 sedate transgression cases, including murder, effort to murder, dacoity, robbery and burglaries successful 2024, the fig had dipped to 115 successful 2025.
“The fig of murders, 53, reported successful 2025 is the lowest successful the territory successful the past 5 years,” said Madurai Superintendent of Police B. K. Arvind.
And astir of the murders were owed to household quarrel, drunken brawl and abrupt provocation.
The SP attributed the simplification successful fig of murders for concerted efforts of the policemen successful the agrarian areas. “Increased and disposable constabulary beingness has helped to avert untoward incidents successful the district,” helium said.
Besides, regular policing, the constabulary had identified transgression prone areas and deployed equipped two-wheeler patrols successful prime areas nether Alanganallur, Silaiman, Melur, Austinpatti, Perungudi and Melur wherever the beingness of rowdy elements was high.
“This patrol squad had a dedicated work of keeping a ticker connected anti-social elements. They utilized to intimately show the beingness and question of specified persons each day,” Mr. Arvind said.
A thorough travel up connected petitions received astatine constabulary stations from the District Police Office helped the constabulary officers to amusement keen involvement successful conducting enquiry into the petitions.
“We recovered that a diligent proceeding and explaining to the petitioners astir the constricted relation of constabulary successful definite civilian disputes astir satsified the petitioners. This reduced the hostility successful the villages,” the SP added.
Four-wheeler patrols
In bid to cheque spot crimes similar robbery and burglary, the constabulary brought the highways bordering Madurai City Police jurisdiction nether four-wheeler patrol.
The question of patrol vehicles were effectual successful checking unnecessary question of anti-social elements successful the highways on Vadipatti, Melur, Natham highway, and Nagamalai Pudukottai.
Consequently, the fig of robbery cases saw a crisp autumn from 64 successful 2024 to 38 successful 2025.
Similarly, the thrust of the constabulary towards installation of CCTVs successful important places besides acted arsenic a deterrent. “Those cameras besides helped to ace transgression cases connected fewer occasions,” the SP said.
