Ahmedabad City police: Items worth Rs 33 cr seized during crimes disposed in six months

Further, stolen gold and silver jewellery worth more than Rs 4 crore were returned to the owners.

The official statement also added that the police destroyed 55,102 litres of country-made liquor and 5.73 lakh bottles of foreign liquor worth Rs 8 crore that were seized under the Prohibition Act.

During a media briefing Wednesday, Ahmedabad City Police Commissioner G.S Malik claimed that crimes involving murder, loot and housebreak have declined by 14 per cent, 38 per cent and 22 per cent respectively over the past six months. “This is due to effective supervision of police doing night rounds, red alerts and emphasis on people-oriented policing,” he said.

“However, we have a lot of work (that needs to be done) in traffic, and cyber crimes will be our priority,” Malik told The Indian Express. “To solve the traffic problem, we have sent one DCP (Safin Hasan) to Bengaluru to study their traffic-related solutions as the situation there is much more serious than ours. We’ll take in feedback and improve,” he added.