‘Village policing’, monitoring of criminals prevented many revenge killings in Tirunelveli district, says SP

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The precocious introduced “Village Policing” and changeless monitoring of the movements of rowdy elements and the criminals person prevented the imaginable orchestration of 36 murders — mostly ‘revenge killings’ — successful the past 2 years successful the district, Superintendent of Police N. Silambarasan has said.

During an enactment with the reporters present connected Monday, Mr. Silambarasan said each constable and the caput constable successful the constabulary stations of the territory had been entrusted with the occupation of monitoring astatine slightest 1 colony arsenic portion of transgression prevention by visiting the assigned hamlet astatine slightest erstwhile a week. The constable oregon the caput constable acrophobic would refresh during the visits his sources determination and conscionable important radical of the colony to update himself astir thing happening suspicious.

The quality inputs helium could cod from the colony would beryllium corroborated instantly with the accusation gathered done the police’s changeless monitoring of the criminals and the execution lawsuit accused and different anti-social elements to thwart their plans by arresting them earlier their plots getting executed.

“We, done this strategy, person prevented 36 murders successful the territory — including 3 imaginable killings successful 1 time — successful the past 2 years and arrested 112 persons earlier they could execute their plot. Hence, we could trim the fig of this heinous transgression by 20% than past twelvemonth till September 2025,” said Mr. Silambarasan.

The law-enforcers close from the constabulary constable to the higher-ups progressive successful this stupendous occupation were honoured by the Director-General of Police with certificates and currency awards.

As the ‘foot patrolling’ successful agrarian areas, particularly successful the crime-prone villages successful the evenings, had been yielding effectual results, this workout had been intensified to guarantee disposable constabulary presence. “We person truthful acold completed 27,500 ft patrolling,” said Mr. Silambarasan and added that the installation of 7,394 CCTV cameras successful agrarian areas were an effectual deterrent.

While ‘crime prevention’ topped the constabulary agenda, the expedited trial, timely accumulation of witnesses successful the court, ensuring their safety, beingness of officers acrophobic successful the tribunal for the proceeding had resulted successful the aboriginal condemnation of accused, mostly history-sheeters, successful 22 murders till September this year.

“Special attraction is being fixed to expedite the proceedings successful the cases pertaining to transgression against women and children and hence 22 accused successful 21 POCSO cases person been convicted since January last. While 4 of them were awarded beingness sentence, an accused got 25 years imprisonment and different was fixed 20 years imprisonment. In all, 15,221 radical had been convicted successful the past 2 years successful the territory successful each the cases – close from petty quarrel to murders,” said Mr. Silambarasan.

Since ganja, being mostly smuggled from a neighbouring State, had go a root-cause of crimes, the constabulary had registered 200 cases against the ganja peddlers and the smugglers too seizing 258 kg of cannabis.

Insisting that the constabulary were perpetually monitoring the societal media posts — messages, photos, and the videos — being uploaded with the nefarious motive of creating unrest betwixt antithetic castes oregon religions, Mr. Silambarasan said 107 of them had been detained. The ‘caste colours’ pasted astatine 2,115 nationalist spots successful 313 villages had been removed. Those who paste these objectionable marks for creating societal unrest were being booked.

“When a societal media station by a caste-based outfit baselessly accused the constabulary of breaking the hands oregon legs of the accused, the Valliyoor constabulary registered a lawsuit against outfit’s laminitis president. If the probe proved him wrong, helium volition beryllium arrested,” the SP said.

Published - October 13, 2025 05:03 p.m. IST

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