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People told to work with police to bring down crime rate

By Our Staff Correspondent

MANGALORE DEC. 8 . The criminal mind is hard to fathom and the crime-fighting machinery should be prepared to face any eventuality, the MP, Vinaykumar Sorake, has said. Inaugurating the exhibition, "Crimino Vision 2002", organised by the Department of Criminology, at the Roshni Nilaya School of Social Work on the occasion of the silver jubilee celebrations, he said "impenetrable" establishments of yesteryears stood vulnerable to the new techniques of destruction.

Referring to the attacks on WTC and Pentagon, he said the most secure nations had fallen prey to the new breed of global criminals.

Tracing the roots of criminal attitude, he said economic, political, and social imbalances were to be blamed for the rise in criminal tendencies.

The law could bring the criminals to book with the help of modern investigation methods, assisted by technology, he said and added that such methods should become academic realities to develop an army of crime fighters.

Releasing the first issue of the newsletter of the department, "Crime Watch", the Superintendent of Police, Dakshina Kannada, Seemanth Kumar Singh, said society had a major role to play in the detection of crime. The police and the public should work together to bring down the crime rate, Mr. Singh said and added that public participation in fighting the crime would keep away the criminal tendencies.

The noted lawyer, Kallige Taranath Shetty, said people should come forward to provide witness on crime incidents without any apprehension. Stating that there were reforms in the process of prosecution, he said witnesses were given priority in disposing of their part in the cases.

"Crimino Vision 2002" features all the departments of crime detection such as fingerprints, questioned documents, ballistics, footprints, tool marks, toxicology, identification, biological section, counterfeit coins and fake notes, crime weapons, and forensic medicine.

Mangalore Police, which has come forward to train students in the detection of weapons used in the crime, has displayed various firearms in the exhibition.

Speaking to The Hindu, a senior faculty in the Department of Criminology agreed that the Criminology had limited scope in the job market.

The faculty member felt that researches in the field and freelance criminology experts could help the police in detecting the crime.

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