NOIDA: Police in Noida registered 12,609 cases in 2021 — an average of 34 a day, data sourced from the cops showed on Friday. In the last five years, Noida had seen more cases only once, in 2019.
There were 9,130 FIRs registered in 2020, 12,610 in 2019, 10,048 in 2018 and 9,929 in 2017, the data showed. The number of crimes in 2021 is a cause for concern, considering that many stayed indoors because of the lockdown because of the second wave.
Officers, however, claimed there was a declining trend in serious crimes across the city. In 2021, there were 41 FIRs in connection with rape, 79 for murder, 52 for loot, 125 for rioting, 143 for burglary and 110 for breach of peace.
In comparison, 2020 saw 42 FIRs in cases of rape, 81 for murder, 75 for loot, 129 for rioting, 181 for burglary and 143 for breach of peace, among others. The data showed there were no FIRs registered for dacoity and kidnap in 2021 while there were two cases lodged in each category in 2020.
It’s been two years that the police commissionerate has started functioning in Noida. In January 2020, the Yogi Aditya-nath government had approved the commissionerate system for Noida along with the state capital Lucknow, considering the size and population of the two districts.
Additional director-general Alok Singh had become the first police commissioner of Noida.
In a police commissionerate, the head of the police, usually an IG-rank officer, gets some of the magisterial powers too. Other policing systems are usually headed by an SP or SSP, and the head of the police has to work in association with the district magistrate in ceryain cases.
Apart from Noida and Lucknow, Varanasi and Kanpur are the only two other districts that have a commissionerate system of policing.
