Block 14 Robbery Yesterday - Nov 11, 2009

Warning: Increased Rate of Robberies in our Area ہوشیار: ہمارےعلاقہ میں جرائم کی بھرمار

آج جناب ولی اللہ صاحب کا ایک مختصر پیغام موبائل فون پر ملا۔ انہوں  نے اس خبر  کی طرف توجہ دلائی: ۔۔

گلستان جوہر تھانے کی حدود میں بلاک 14 میں ڈکیتی کی واردات میں بے پناہ اضافہ ہونے سے علاقے کے مکین سخت پریشانی کا شکار ہوگئے ہیں، ڈاکو دن دھاڑے گھروں میں داخل ہوکر لوٹ مار کر کے فرار ہو جاتے ہیں۔ جمعے کو بھی کانٹیننٹل بیکری والی گلی میں دو مکانوں میں ڈکیتی کی واردات ہوئی، اہم بات یہ ہے کہ اس بلاک میں خواتین سے پرس چھیننے، موبائل چھین کر فرار ہونے والوں کے خلاف جب ایف آئی آر درج کرائی جاتی ہے تو دوسرے روز ایف آئی آر درج کرانے والوں کے گھر میں ڈکیتی کی واردات ہو جاتی ہے۔ علاقے کے لوگوں نے وزیر داخلہ سندھ ڈاکٹر ذوالفقار مرزا، سی سی پی او کراچی وسیم احمد اور دیگر حکام سے موٴثر اقدامات کی اپیل کی ہے۔

یہ خبر آج کے روزنامہ جنگ میں شائع ہوئی ہے۔ اس کے ایک سرسری تجزیہ سے یہ پتہ چلتا ہے کہ عام پولیس میں موجود کوئی کالی بھیڑیں معصوم شہریوں کا شکار کرنے میں معاونت کررہی ہیں۔ ورنہ ڈاکو عالم الغیب تو نہیں، جو تھانہ میں شکایت کرنے والوں کے کوائف جان جاتے ہیں، اور انتقامی کارروائی کرتے ہیں۔ ان تمام مسائل کا حل صرف اور صرف سی پی ایل سی سسٹم کے نفاذ میں ہے۔ اب تو آپ سب انپی آنکھیں اور دماغ کھول کر اس پر غور کریں۔ واضح رہے کہ سی پی ایل سی سسٹم میں کام کرنے والے پولیس اہل کار عمدہ کردار کے حامل ہوتے، اور براہ راست آپ کو رپورٹ کرتے ہیں۔  مزید تفصیلات کے لیے رابطہ فرمائیں۔

Hashim Syed Mohammad bin Qasim

Researcher, Writer, Publisher, Sociologist, HR, O&D, and ICT Consultant

JUSTUJU MEDIA (The QUEST) Syndication, Research and Publishing, Pakistan

Current Affairs Analyst: Radio Channel Islam International, Johannesburg, South Africa

Contributing Editor: UrduPoint.com, Alqamar.org

Incidents Report محلہ میں مختلف واقعات کی رپورٹ

October 2008:

B-34 --  Soon after Eid holidays, the tenants in B-34, first floor, returned at around 1330 hours from a money exchanger in Bahadurabad area. Robbers followed the lady's car, and within a blink of any eye robbed her at her doorstep, and shot her 3 times in her leg. She luckily, by grace of God, survied this ordeal, but lost a major amount.

Our 'hesitant' Guard Gulsher, on prompting by Mr. Iqbal, B-33, fired at the robbers, but they fired back on the guard, and fled on a motorbike. These were 2 fat men, in Police uniforms, and both were wearing helmets. (A sure sign of trouble in our society, as even one person does not wear a helmet, so why the both of them were helmeted!)

It is to be noted that very few neighbours visited the victim and her family:

حادثہ سے بڑا حادثہ یہ ہوا

لوگ ٹھہرے نہیں حادثہ دیکھ کر

(ہروفیسر عنایت علی خان)

(It should be noted that earlier tenant Mr. Zia too had been robbed in a similar manner at the doorsteps a few months ago.)

18 October 2008:

At ishaa prayers time, at least two robbers barged in to R-5, ground floor, and robbed a family. They used abusive language againt the family, and after robbing their jewelery and cash, they quickly fled.

This house is owned by one Mr. Aqil Lodhi, who is a renowned lawyer and a prominent member of Sindh bar council. He lives on the first floor, and he was saved from this ordeal, by grace of God.

This area is guarded by a night time Chowkidaar, Ajmal.

October 2008

It was early morning when residents of B-94 returned from airport. Within a few minutes their radio-tape player was removed.

November 2008

In B-44, about 4 robbers tried to break in at Fajr time. They successfully entered the house, but ADT system created noise, and they fled. 

This area is also 'guarded' by a night time Chowkidar, Ajmal.

November 2008

House B-39 was victimised twice in one day! And they have been victimised 3 times now.

Car accessories thieves struck in the early morning at abuot 6 AM. Khwaja saheb's new driver Fayyaz saw this and caught one of the younger thieves.

After a good beating by Mohallah people, the young lad was handed over to some law agencies by one Mr. Irfan living near by.

It is interesting to note that though Chowkidar Ajmal had no role in capturing the thief, he is reported to be taking its credit for himself. It is recommended that Mohallah people keep a watch on this watchman himself. Due to his inefficiencies and suspect activities he has been removed and banned from our street for many months now. Ajmal has also given death threats to Mr. Iqbal (B-33), and to Mr. Hashim (B-97) with a warning to not to tread on his 'turf'.

Later in the day, when Khawaja saheb returned from a money exchanger in Hasan Square, a motorcyclist followed him and robbed him at his doorsteps. The robber quickly fled.

Khwaja Saheb's house was also robbed in early day time a few months ago, when robbers entered his house through an open gate,  assisted by the maid and a gardener, who had kept the gate open .... whether they did it on purpose is not known. 

Our Safeguarding Actions

We have now 2 armed guards now, to work on a 24 hours basis. (Day time guard Gulsher started on 10 July, and second night time guard Mehraab has started on 5 November 2008.)

Also, we have removed and banned the old Chowkidaar, Ajmal, from our street.

Also we invited Colonel (R) Nazim, C-107, who is running a security agency to see our arrangements. He gave us some advices, including to speed up the guards registration and verification processes and fingerprints recording. He is also of the view that their salaries should not be more than 7,500. This is what he is charging for providing uniformed, armed, trained, and verified guards. But they are to be provided with food and shelter and bathrooms. Even a temporary type of tent costing Rs. 3,500 is usable, which can be pitched on any empty ground.

We are also trying, from time to time, to educate our guards in recognition of unusual events. But this requires some experience, along with this training.

One more of our neighbours looted at gun point inside his home ایک اور پڑوسی کو ان کے گھر میں اسلحہ کے زور پر لوٹ لیا گیا

بی - ۱۰۱ میں آنے والے نئے کرایہ داروں کو دو ہفتہ قبل سرشام، مغرب کے وقت دو موٹر سائیکلوں پر سوار ڈاکوئوں نے ان کےگھر میں داخل ہوکر لوٹ لیا۔ اس دوران خاصہ شور و غل مچا، مگر کوئی بھی پڑوسی اسے نہ سن سکا۔ ڈاکو بڑے خوش لباس تھے، اور انہوں نے نہایت ہی اطمینان سے کارروائی کی اور مزے سے فرار ہوگئے۔

New tenants in B-101 Block 14, have recently been looted by well dressed robbers riding two motor bikes. They entered the home and carried out their crime with some perfection and ran away without any resistance. The crime took place around maghreb time about 2 weeks ago. It came to our attention only yesterday. The name of the victim is Mr. Shabbir Khan. Please visit him and offer your sympathies.

Gulistan e Jauhar - Robbers Paradise - Complaints against the Project Convenor !

Please click on the image to enlarge ....


"Get out of this place, and do not show your face ever again here ...." roared one of the Paid Members of the CPLC Initiative of Block 14. As I looked at him in total dismay and with a painful heart over such a childish attitude, and angrily offered him to take back his contribution of Rs. 5,000. He had ignored the last newsletter, and had not seen the webspace too for a long time.

This happened on Sunday, August 5, 2007. Residents of B-5, and C-145 were bitterly complaining, and holding the convenor responsible for not starting the system in time, and as a result many neighbours have been robbed....

The real issue is that at least 60 members contributing 5,000 Rs each towards capital funding, and Rs. 1,000 per month are needed to arrange the essential basics of a CPLC system. This has been explained again and again, but people are not listening seriously. Whenever an incident takes place, the immediate neighbours realise that something needs to be done. And next day they again go in to a state of denial.

I had suggested that we explore 3 options: 1)- Each of the existing 22 members make 2 members each, thus we reach our immediate goal; 2)-The 22 existing members provide a loan of Rs. 10,000 each, repayable in future; 3)- We together find some donors to fund main items of communication (Wireless set Rs. 200.000, Motorbikes, etc.).

Interestingly, as the project was initiated through an education of the community by distributing leaflets and personal contacts by the lone ranger (Hashim) in mid March 2007, the progress is very very slow. Some of the paid members have gone in to a disillusioning nightmare, and think that the Convenor is solely responsible for starting the system as early as possible. The fact is that even the current 22 paid members have mostly paid after numerous contacts and requests.

The convenor has spent a great deal of money in mobile phone communications, in photocopying the leaflets, in gas / fuel, personal time and emotional stress due to contacts with stone hearted neighbours.

Failure is not an option. We have to start a system as soon as possible. The organized criminals are on a rampage. They have recently robbed: C-111, B-70-2, B-5 (4th time!), and B-3.

The list of victims is growing. But even the victims seem to be insulated from a sense of community sharing.

Only God will help us ....

DNA Testing can solve most robbery cases

A NEW TOOL FOR POLICE

Since it was introduced in New York, DNA sampling has emerged as an important tool in hard-to-solve cases like burglaries, in which, according to the New York Times, arrests are made in only about 15 percent of reported offenses. In 2004, a pilot program launched in Queens called Biotracks, which netted 23 suspects tied to 34 burglary cases in a nine-month period, according to the Times. It led to the arrest of one man, Robert Medina, who pled guilty to five burglaries after DNA on a scarf he left at a crime scene was matched to a sample taken from him after a previous felony arrest.

The same procedure can be used with sex offenses, which are also difficult to solve. In a recent case, DNA from a Queens man convicted on a drug-related charge was matched to a sample saved from a rape kit that included a taunting note left for the victim. As a result, he was found guilty of first-degree rape and second-degree burglary.

Speaking in 2006, Police Commissioner Kelly asserted that DNA testing had led to the arrests of 210 sex offenders. New York City. The technology spurred the elimination last year of the state’s five-year statue of limitation for rape cases.

Perhaps the strongest case for expansive DNA sampling comes from England, which, in the last decade, has embarked on the world’s most aggressive DNA gathering effort. The country’s DNA database maintains over 4 million samples, covering about 6 percent of the population, more than ten times the rate at which DNA samples are collected in the United States. The database has yielded close to 3,000 crime scene matches per month, according to NewScientist.com, including “hits for 15 murders, 45 rapes and sexual offenses and 2,500 car, theft and drug crimes.”

At the same time, DNA sampling can help prove the innocence of individuals wrongly convicted of a crime. The Innocence Project, which uses DNA to try to win the release of the wrongfully convicted, has helped exonerate 201 individuals in the United States, and 23 in New York State. Most recently, DNA testing was used to exonerate Byron Halsey, the New Jersey man who had served 19 years in jail for the murder of the seven and eight-year old children of Halsey’s girlfriend. DNA testing instead implicated a neighbor who had testified against Halsey during the trial. In a statement that shows the powerful impact of DNA, the victims’ mother said, “I knew Byron loved Tyrone and Tina. It didn’t make sense to me that he could have done this. I always had my doubts, but I didn’t know what to do about them. I am thankful that the DNA testing has identified who really did this to my children and that Byron is being released today.”

Gotham Gazette, New York, USA

Membership Progress Report

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen:

Here is a membership progress report (P)= Paid Members. Total collection so far=Rs. 100,000. We need at least Rs. 300,000 to start the work:

S.#	Names	Address	Status / eMail Address
1	Shahbazuddin Saheb (P)	B-R-23
2	Mohammad bin Abdul Haque(P)	B-34
3	Ali Jaafar Abidi (P)	B-16
4	Ashaar A. Farooqui (P)	C-145/1	petrocheminst@cyber.net.pk
5	Khawaja Ghulam Wajahat(P)	B-39	khawajagwajahat@hotmail.com
6	Saleemullah Ahsan(P)	B-6
7	Syed Abid Hussain (P)	B-38
8	Iqbal Qureshi (P)	B-33
9	Sajid Qureshi (P)	B-35
10	Zahid Hussain (P)	C-106	Zahidhussain106@msn.com
11	Murtaza Naqvi (P)	B-5
11	Hashim Syed (P)	B-97	hashims@gmail.com
13	Waliullah Khan (P)	B-268	hillviewrealestate@gmail.com
14	Zahid Razi	B-95	zrazi@cyber.net.pk Submitted the membership form, but not ready to pay yet, in spite of many follow ups!
15	Raziullah Khan	B-268	Joint family with Waliullah Saheb. May not pay anymore
16	Adil Siddiqui	B-98	Confirmed joining. Payment delayed
17	Mohammad Kamran Saheb	B-9	Considering - Ashaar Faruqi following him up
18	Altaf Majeed	B-44	Wants to see action first
19	Nausherwan Butt	B-40	Considering to join
20	Mohammad Najmi	B-68	Having doubts about the project success. Needs more follow up
21	Mohammad Ali Ismail Suriya	C-145/2	Agreed to join
22	Shahzad Aslam (P)	C-145
23	Lt. Col Ali Nazim (P) *	C-107	* A star for our project. Security & Policing Expert, with critical view and ideas about the Police
24	Mahmood Alam	B-48	Considering to join
25	Elahi Saheb	B-136	Reviewing the literature. Waliullah to follow himup
26	Farid Saheb / Danish	B-53	Considering to join. Zahid H following them
27	Majed Saheb (P)	B-62
28	Rizwan Saheb (P)	B-60
29	Ahmad ullah Siddiqui (P)	C-111
30	Ahmer Saheb	C-111/1	Considering to join
31	Shehzad Saheb	C-105	Considering to join
32	Syed Shakil Ahmad (P)	C-128	ahmadss@wyeth.com
33	Naveed Aamir (P) *	C-149	Took 5 minutes to join, and pay
34	Sohail Shafi Kapurwala	C-148	Confirmed joining
35	Abdul Alim Saheb	B-55	Doubtful about CPLC Zahid Hussain following him
36	Anees Piracha	B-45	Wants to see First Action
37	Prof. M. Arif Latif, LLB *	B-87	A star addition *
38	M. Zaman	B-86	Reviewing the Project Literature
39	M. Latif Jamal	B-84	Reviewing the Project Literature
40	Sirdar Ahmed Saheb	C-152	Considering to join with about 10 members
41	Sarfaraz Alam (Shop at Mosque Al Fazal)	Opp B-53	Considering Joining
42	Waseem Gul	C-199	Reviewing options, and our project
43	Sheikh M. Iqbal	C-246	Reviewing options, and our project
44	Nayyar Yar Khan	C-259	Reviewing options, and our project
45	Shoaib Saheb	C-259/1	Reviewing options, and our project
46	Shaukat Saheb	B-66	Conirmed joinning
47	Syed Hussain Hyder	C-132	Reviewing options, and our project
48	Shameem Rajput – GEO	B-131	Wants to consult his neighbours. Reviewing options, and our project
49	Ayaz Saheb	C-103	Confirms joining. Signed MC too. But delaying the payment
50	Abdulaziz Saheb PAF	B-9	Willing to join in near future

FOLLOWING HOUSEHOLDS HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY ROBBERIES, SNATCHING, CAR JACKINGS OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS –

INCOMPLETE SURVEY LIST(e&oe)

S.#	Address	Type
1	B-5	Three times, robberies, attempted kidnapping of child
2	B-95	Full scale robbery, dacoity
3	B-31
4	B-32
5	B-34 (FF)	Snatching in front of the house
6	B-53	Cultus taken
7	B-271	Snatchings reported
8	B-343	Robbery in a relative’s house nearby
9	B-346	Old case
10	B-267
11	B-268	Valuable Car accessories taken out
12	B-274+	Chowkidaar shot at nearby
13	C-104	Gold snatched
14	B-7	Both floors robbed simultaneously
15	C-114
16	C-145/1	Car taken
17	A-82
18	C-111
19	C-259	Latest case, on 16 May 2007
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