PUNE: The 12-member special squad deployed by the Bharati Vidyapeeth, Swargate and Sahakarnagar police stations since February has enabled the police to maintain an effective check on theft, pick-pocketing and bag-lifting on PMPML buses.
The squad is keeping a check on the Katraj-Swargate, Swargate-Hadapsar and Swargate-Mandai routes that had high crime rates before its deployment. Since February, the squad has arrested 12 people involved in thefts on the buses and recovered gold and cash worth Rs1.63 lakh from them. Each of these police stations has registered five to seven cases of thefts on the currently operating PMPML (Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited) buses.
