Operation Dandayan launched in Anantapur district to curb crimes against women, children: SP

Superintendent of Police P. Jagadeesh connected Friday reiterated that crimes against women would beryllium dealt with nether a ‘zero-tolerance’ argumentation and announced the implementation of ‘Operation Dandayan’ successful Anantapur territory arsenic portion of a statewide inaugural aimed astatine ensuring swift probe and speedy condemnation successful offences against women and children.

The SP said the Andhra Pradesh Police had intensified ‘Speed Trial Monitoring’ to unafraid faster convictions successful cases related to rape, home unit and offences nether the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, each of which autumn nether the ambit of Operation Dandayan.

Mr. Jagadeesh said each investigating officers had been directed to record complaint sheets wrong 60 days successful each lawsuit registered nether crimes against women and children. Sensational cases would beryllium transferred to fast-track courts for expedited trials, portion repetition offenders and suspects would beryllium intimately monitored done the SOS-Secure Andhra System and the Cyber Watch surveillance network, helium added.

Emphasising that those accused successful superior crimes against women would not beryllium spared careless of their influence, the SP said conviction-oriented policing remained a cardinal precedence of the department. Victims would beryllium provided counselling and ineligible assistance, portion regular consciousness programmes would beryllium conducted successful acquisition institutions. The constabulary would besides utilise media platforms to fortify nationalist confidence, helium added.