A year of mixed results for Anantapur police
The Hindu
No of deaths in road accidents up to 626 from 612
Busting red sanders and sandalwood smuggling rackets, helping the NDRF in rescuing people in the recent floods, installing 19,578 CCTV cameras at crucial places all over the district to monitor law and order, Special Enforcement Bureau making confiscation valued at ₹14.24 crore in 11,692 cases in a district with a long inter-State border with Karnataka, have been some of the achievements of the district police in the current calendar year.
Road accident cases slightly increased from 1,118 in 2020 to 1,120 in 2021, and the number of fatalities saw a rise from 612 to 626 and injuries coming down by 5%, said Superintendent of Police Fakkeerappa Kaginelli at the annual crime review press conference here on Wednesday.