Coordination meeting between crime branch officials and bullion traders

Nagpur: The city-based bullion traders and crime branch officials had a routine quarterly coordination meeting on Monday. The meeting had taken place at crime branch’s detection office at Gittikhadan where the city’s top bullion traders and the senior office-bearers of their association had assembled.
In the quarterly meeting, the bullion traders and crime branch officials discussed several issues which had been regularly coming up between them pertaining to recovery of stolen valuables, security of the businessmen, increase in patrolling, and the use of electronic surveillance gadgets like CCTV. Prior to the quarterly meeting, the bullion traders and cops also meet at the police station level every month.
In Monday’s meeting, Addl CP Nilesh Bharne, DCP Gajanan Rajmane and ACP Sudhir Nandanwar were among the senior officials of crime branch who were present. “This was a routine meeting where certain guidelines from police were being discussed and the grievances of the bullion traders were also taken into consideration,” said Bharne. “The issues would be followed up both at the police station level and also from the crime branch,” he said.
An official, who was part of the meeting, said the association members also have grievances regarding the manner in which police approached them for recovering stolen gold disposed at their outlet by the burglars or thieves. “The most patchy part of police-jeweller relation is related to the recovering of stolen gold as per the revelation of the thieves or burglars during interrogation. We try to convince the jewellers to cooperate with us and there is a system in place in which the investigation officer is expected to approach them for recovery through the association,” he said.