Latehar Police takes pride in being part of this effort which will bring us closer to the common man whom we strive to serve selflessly. Latehar endowed with great scenic beauty and natural resources has potential to achieve high economic growth rate with prosperity to all , but naxalites have created roadblocks in the path of development. No parallel of this district can be found as far as the distinct nature of naxalite violence is concerned. In addition to CPI(Maoist), the splinter groups such as TPC, JPC, JLT, JSJMM often pose serious threat to the law and order situation by indulging in kidnapping for ransom. The hostile geographical condition is a major stumbling block in carrying out effective anti-naxal operations in the district. However,inspite of the hostile ground realities, the district Police's remarkable success in recent years has not only brought to fore the untiring efforts by the Police personnel but also the fact that more and more information is coming forth about the naxal movement in the remote areas. It's an indication of the increasing faith of the common man in the security forces. The district Police's role is no longer confined to reaching out to the far-flung areas and to chase away the naxal squads.Now, they lay a great emphasis on lending a helping hand to the poor and hapless families residing in the villages. The needs of school children are too being taken care off. Moreover, free legal aid in matters relating to family , social and financial disputes were also being offered to the villagers to enhance their faith in the district Police. Also initiatives has been taken in adopting a backward village and then turning it into a Model village. Under this programme, we have already adopted Cheero Village under the Chandwa Police station and the development work is underway. We reiterate that district Police will leave no stone unturned to ensure the safety of the public

The credit goes to the common people of the district for all the major inroads made by the security forces in their drive against different naxal organization currently operational in the Latehar district, braving the acute resource crunch and the hostile geographical terrain. Hats off to the local masses who had time and again imposed full faith in the district police during the district police’s drive against the Naxal menace. And without whose co-operation any force can not succeed in their endeavour.

Even as different agencies of the state government has been carrying out welfare schemes for the poor and the BPL families, undertaking ambitious projects to build roads and bridges in remote areas, the reports relating to demand of levy  from the contractors and the government officials are pouring in on a regular basis. According to intelligence available with the police, the hard core ultras including the area commanders and Zonal Commanders owing allegiance to different extremists’ organizations are collecting a certain amount of government funds meant for mass development as levy.

To add salt to the wounds, the hardcore ultras are sending their children to the expensive public schools and reputed colleges in addition to building palatial buildings in metropolitan cities on the one hand. On the other, the same naxalites preach the doctrine of Maoism to the innocent, hapless and illiterate villagers in remote areas. They present themselves as the harbinger of the armed revolution and the rule by the farmers and the labourers contrary to the facts in the present age of science. They are relentlessly making false promises to the masses, thus giving rise to anarchy in the state while they are involved neck deep in money laundering.  

I also want to expose the real face of the Maoists who propagate a ruling system which cannot match the flexibility exhibited by the democratic system. More importantly, the communism (the Maoism) had failed to deliver the tall promises in a few countries and the people there had opted for democratic system of governance. The way the Maoists tried to displace the democratic system in Nepal is a well known fact but this is a welcome sign that they have decided to join the government there recently.

Now, I want to give an awakening call to those youths including girls who had gone astray, to come back to the main stream of the society and to shun the violence against mankind.

Finally, I would like to reiterate that the district police will leave no stone unturned to ensure the safety of the public. I also solicit your support in this endeavour.

5 YEARS CRIME FIGURE OF LATEHAR DISTRICE

Sl.No. Crime Head Year
2003		 Year
2003		 Year
2004		 Year
2005		 Year
2006		 Year
2007
1 Murder 43 43 28 34 24 53
2 Dacoity 04 10 10 03 06 03
3 Road Dacoity 23 36 26 23 21 24
4 Robbery 01 05 01 03 01 04
5 Road Robbery 12 17 15 10 27 13
6 House Breaking 12 19 09 16 17 09
7 Theft 33 52 29 59 71 72
8 Riot 17 18 09 13 22 38
9 Serious Riot 03 - 01 01 02 01
10 Wire Theft - 02 02 - 05 03
11 Rape 12 10 03 12 13 10
12 Kidnapping 07 01 10 06 06 11
13 Kidnapping for ransom 01 - 04 - 02 03
14 Road accident 98 62 70 97 86 84
15 Dowry Act 04 03 01 - 02 00
16 Cheating - 01 03 - 01 05
17 Excise Act. 02 03 05 03 02 02
18 Arms Act. 11 08 18 13 11 09
19 Explosive Substance Act. - 01 - - - 00
20 Naxal Case 39 37 43 38 70 65
21 Atro. Against women 04 04 04 05 05 09
22 S.C/S.T  Atro.Act. 06 02 05 01 10 19
23 Gambling Act. - 03 - 01 - 00
24 7 E.C. Act. - - - - - 01
25 Narcotic Act. - - - - - 01
26 Misc. 144 140 127 136 174 187
 27 Grand Total 476 477 423 474 578 627

Presently, the Latehar district is infested with naxal violence. From the security point of view, the entire Latehar district had been divided into two police sub divisions, four police circles and eight police stations for maintaining law and order and providing security cover to the public. In addition, five police pickets under different police stations have also been established. Moreover, four companies of Central Para Military Forces, one company of India Reserve Battalion, one company of Special Task Force and two companies of Jharkhand Armed Police have been pressed into service to counter naxal insurgency in the district.
As far as Naxalites violence is concerned in addition to the CPI (Maoists) activities, the splinter groups such as TPC, JPC, JLT and JSJMM often pose serious threat to the law and order situation by indulging in kidnapping for ransom, intensified turf war (gang war) over area dominance and by giving bandh call, targeting VIPs as well as the police establishments.

The undulating, highly forested hilly terrains provide the naxal squads with natural hide outs which are sometimes nearly inaccessible to reach. The Naxalites also run their training centers here.

However, in spite of the hostile ground realities, the district police achieved remarkable success in the year 2006-2007 in comparison to last five years.

In 2006, 68 ultras were sent to jails, the police had 14 encounters with the extremists, two hardcore naxal were gunned down and 20 fire arms as well as 720 live ammunitions were recovered whereas 29 ultras were arrested, police had 10 encouters, 22 firearms as well as 11725 cartridges were recovered from them in 2007. In addition, eight bunkers made from syntax water tanks and two training camps were busted.

The district police have recently launched a mass movement in the remote areas to appeal to the common people to join the mainstream of the society. The community policing is proving a very supportive tool in wining the confidence of the villagers. In this connection, the highly backward villages have also been adopted for the all round development of the villagers.

It is widely believed that these step will help curb the naxal menace in the coming years.

Recently, there has been a major shift in the police’s approach in tackling the naxal menace in the backwaters of district. The district police’s role is no longer confined to reaching out to the far flung areas and to chase away the naxal squads. Now, they laid a great emphasis on lending a helping hand to the poor and hapless families residing in the villages. The needs of the school children too were being taken care of. Books, dhoti-sari, clothes and lanterns were being made available to the needy families on a regular basis.

Moreover, free legal aid in matters relating to family, social and financial disputes were also being offered to the villagers so as to enhance their faith in the district police.

Recently, the Director General of Police and the Inspector General of Police have displayed initiative in adopting a backward village and then turning it into a modal village. Under this programme, we have already adopted Cheero village under the Chandwa police station. As a result of this innovative scheme, the youths of this village have shown signs of encouragement and of apathy towards crime. This programme is soon expected to be launched in all police station areas.

ACHIEVEMENTS FORM CRIMINALS DURING THE YEARS 2006 AND 2007 IN LATEHAR DISTRICT.
SL.No. Head Year 2006 Year 2007
1 Arresting  468 560
2 Dacoit- Police
Encounter		 01
Dacoit Muneshwar oraon shot
Dead		 02 Dacoit Anil tirki and Gabrial Purti were shot dead
3 Country
Made Weapons		 17 13
4 Cartridge 19 13
5 Cash Rs.1123 Rs.4242
6 Car 01¼Alto½ 02¼ Bolero- Moped½
7 Truck 14 Theft Coal Load -10]
Stone Load-01]
Wheat Load-03½]		 05 ¼ Coal Load -04
  Iron Load- 01½
8 Tractor 01¼ Coal Load ½ 03 ¼ Stone Load -01  Theft Articles from Mandal Dam-02
9 Pickup Van --- 01 Theft Articles from Mandal Dam
10 Commander Jeep --- 02 Theft Articles from Mandal Dam -01½
11 Tempo --- 01
12 Coal --- 750 Tun About
13 Mobile Phone 04 03
14 Ganja 01 Kg. -
15 Heroine --- 45 Packets
16 T.V. 01 -
17 Solar Plate 02 -
18 Iron Parts 280 Kg About
( Mandal  Dam) 		About 03 Quintal and
08 Iron Angle    
19 Bicycle 11 04
20 Desi wine/ English
Wine		 150 Litre 100 Litre @203 Bottles
21 Solar Battery 03 -
22 Hexa Blade 10 -
23 Telephone wire 10 mtrs. -
24 Diesel Pump Set --- 01
25 Electric wire 75 Kg. About 50 Kg. About
26 Aluminium wire --- 20 Kg. About
27 Copper wire --- 10 Kg. About
28 Mahua --- 04 Bags
29 Kerosene Oil 415 Litre 150 Litre
30 Chandan wood 04 Pieces -
31 Jacket 01 -
32 Seem card 01 -
33 Cartridge Chharra 200gm -
34 Carpet 02 -
35 Torch 01 Pieces -
36 Pocket Dairy 200 Pieces -
37 Soap 61 Pieces -
38 Surf 12 Packet -
39- Paddy - 01 Bags
40- Silver Locket - 01
41- Silver Payal - 01 Pair
42 Silver Chain with locket - 01

5 YEARS NAXAL CRIME FIGURE OF LATEHAR DISTRICT

Month 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
JAN 06 3 9 4 8 01
FEB. 01 3 2 3 3 03
MAR. 05 3 3 5 5 02
APR. 03 8 4 1 9 07
MAY 05 5 4 3 6 08
JUNE 01 1 2 4 5 09
JULY 05 4 7 2 12 03
AUG. 03 1 3 7 06 09
SEP. 05 5 3 2 07 05
OCT. 02 7 4 5 & 06
NOV. 02 3 1 1 06 04
DEC. 08 4 3 4 03 08
TOTAL 46 47 45 41 70 65

YEAR WISE AND CRIME WISE FIGURES OF INCIDENTS DONE BY EXTREMISTS- 1ST JAN.2002 TO DEC 2007

 YEAR WISE/ HEAD WISE Murder Police/
Naxal Encounter 		Kidnapping Exp.
Sub. Act		 Fire Naxal with naxal Encounter Misc Total
 Year2002 10 09 04 06 01 01 15 46
Year 2003 16 10 01 02 01 & 17 47
Year 2004 08 10 01 04 03 & 19 45
Year 2005 08 10 01 05 01 01 15 41
 Year 2006 16 14 02 08 04 02 24 70
 Year 2007 17 10 03 04 07 03 21 65
SUCCESSION BOARD OF SP's
Sl No Name of The Officer From To
1 Bhageshwar Jha  07-05-01 16-19-01
2 Dr. Arun Kumar Oraon 16-09-01 16-09-02
3 Sri OP. Khare 19-09-02 03-01-03
4 Sri Deepak Kr. Varma 04-01-03 20-07-03
5 Sri Dadan Jee Sharma  20-07-03 06-02-04
6 Sri M.S. Bhatia 06-02-04 09-07-05
7 Sri T. Kandasamy  21-07-05 11-12-05
8 Sri Subodh Prasad  12-12-05 21-04-06
9 Sri Ravikant Dhan 22-04-06 Till Now
Important Telephone No. of Latehar Dist. (Police Department)
SL.No.
 Officer Name Code No. Phone No. Mobile No.
1
 D.C. Latehar 06565 247417 9431138347
2
 S.P., Latehar 06565 247385/247475 9431706262
3
 S.D.O. Latehar 06565 247628 9431193298
4
 Dy.S.P(HQ.) Latehar 06565 247655 9431706263
5
 S.D.P.O. Latehar 06565 247474 9431706264
6
 Dy.S.P Barwadih 06567 288275 9431706265
7
 C.I. Latehar 06565 247716 9431706266
8
 C.I. Balumath 06568 266813 9431706267
9
 C.I. Barwadih 06567 288228 9431706268
10
 C.I. Mahuadand 06569 252353 9431706269
11
 O.C. Latehar 06565 247642 9431706273
12
 O.C. Manika 06567 241344 9431706274
13
 O.C. Chandwa 06565 226235 9431706275
14
 O.C. Balumath 06568 266813 9431706276
15
 O.C. Barwadih 06567 288228 9431706277
16
 O.C. Garu 06569 242211 9431706278
17
 O.C. Mahuadand 06569 252353 9431706279
18
 O.C. Netarhat 06569 277663 9431706280
19
 SGT. Major Police Line Latehar 06565 247595 -