CRIME REPORTING BY NATIONAL AND STATE CRIME RECORDS BUREAU

The Police records the different crimes taken place within the country in categorised manner and publish the same through media annually. The people, the media and the government watch these reports of the national and state bureau and become aware of the crime situation of the country and take appropriate actions. It is quite helpful for the society as a whole to take corrective measures wherever possible. But by closely observing the progressive status of the crime,  it can be safely concluded that no effective follow up action is being taken by the concerned to check the crime rates. 

As the ultimate aim of crime reporting is to prevent crimes in the country, we must use the reporting most effectively. In any country there are two common agencies to prevent crime and those are police and judiciary. Above these two there are three primary powerful establishments that can eliminate crime from the whole society. Those are parents, school and religious institutions. So far we have not effectively used schools and colleges to clean the evils from our society. Similarly, if the periodical reports of the Crime Records Bureau contains the respective religions of the criminals, their religious leaders may have a tendency to make arrangements to get them reformed to have cleaner look of their respective religions. This may become a prestigious issue for them. As such I would like to suggest two things in this context. One is to publish the CRB statistics every month. Another is that it may be ensured that the religion of the criminals may also be included in the report. This will force the religious leaders to contact the criminals from their respective religions and put best possible efforts to reform them, at least to enhance the prestige of their own religions.

K V George