Prakasam district sees slight fall in crime rate in 2025

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Superintendent of Police V. Harshavardhan Raju addressing a property   league  connected  the yearly  transgression  study  successful  Ongole, connected  Tuesday.

Superintendent of Police V. Harshavardhan Raju addressing a property league connected the yearly transgression study successful Ongole, connected Tuesday. | Photo Credit: KOMMURI SRINIVAS

Prakasam territory witnessed a marginal autumn of 6.61 per cent successful wide transgression complaint successful 2025. Against the 8,371 cases registered successful 2024, the existent twelvemonth witnessed lone 7,818 cases. The territory besides solved respective sensational cases during the year.

Addressing a year-end media league successful Ongole connected Tuesday, Superintendent of Police (SP) V. Harshavardhan Raju said the twelvemonth witnessed 1,122 cases connected bodily offences, 632 cases connected property-related offences, 709 women-related crime, 757 roadworthy accidents, 44 cybercrime cases, which were really overmuch lesser than the fig witnessed successful 2024.

Mr. Raju said spot worthy ₹4.44 crore had been recovered of the full ₹8.70 crore-worth stolen property, pegging the betterment complaint astatine an awesome 51.02 per cent. He attributed the autumn successful transgression to the deployment of drones, CCTV cameras and enhanced nighttime beats successful delicate areas.

“129 of the 136 missing girls and 264 retired of the 292 missing women were traced, registering an awesome occurrence complaint astatine 94.85 per cent and 90.41 per cent respectively,” Mr. Raju said. The territory besides recorded details of 3,891 migrant labourers arsenic portion of curtailing crime.

Deputy Superintendent (Ongole) R. Srinivasa Rao, Inspector Srinivasa Rao (Special Branch), Deva Prabhakar (DCRB), V. Venkateswarlu (IT core), Vijay Krishna (Taluk PS) were present.

Published - December 30, 2025 08:16 p.m. IST

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