After 4 cellphones have been stolen from the scooter of a pupil exterior an examination middle at Panjab University (PU) on Monday, the college has beefed up safety on the varsity campus and issued directions to the safety personnel to maintain a watch, particularly across the parking tons contained in the campus.

However, this isn’t the primary theft incident in a car parking zone at PU. In an analogous incident on May 24, a girl had reported that somebody had damaged into her automobile parked exterior the University Institute of Legal Studies (UILS) and stolen two cellphones, apple airpods and financial institution playing cards.

Speaking concerning the incidents, Vikram Singh, chief of college safety, stated, “In previous incidents of theft also we have seen that the perpetrators prefer to strike in parking lots. Their modus operandi is that they sit in their vehicles and keep a watch for students placing their mobiles or laptops inside their vehicles and strike when left unattended.”

Singh added that he has instructed all safety employees to not let individuals simply sit idly of their autos within the parking a lot of the college. “We request individuals in the event that they need to sit of their autos, achieve this exterior the parking tons at a distance of over 50 meters. I request college students additionally to not depart any valuables of their autos,” he added.

The patrolling of safety employees will even be elevated. Some safety officers have been instructed to remain in a civil costume whereas patrolling to watch the state of affairs higher.

Most parking tons inside PU are additionally not coated by CCTV cameras. As per officers, CCTV protection is barely at just a few main parking tons, like that of UILS and the scholar middle, whereas the remainder are usually not coated.

The PU safety employees works in tandem with the Sector-11 police station. They have established a police put up right here and conduct their very own patrolling. The safety employees have not maintained a document of what number of complaints they’ve acquired within the earlier days however no matter inputs they obtain are shared with the police to register FIR.

The safety employees works in three shifts. During every shift, round 65 safety guards are posted inside the campus however the quantity is small, contemplating that there are 20 hostels and 78 departments within the college all of which want safety. PU authorities are at the moment engaged on recruiting extra safety personnel.

Meanwhile, the college has additionally elevated the safety contained in the hostels, as per dean pupil welfare (DSW) Jatinder Grover. The college authorities have additionally issued circulars asking college students to hold their ID playing cards with them always and to solely permit autos with PU issued stickers contained in the varsity.