Chandigarh, July 8 -- The ongoing drive against drugs has witnessed a paradigm shift in the dynamics of crime reporting with information provided by commoners through the 'Safe Punjab' helpline and portal increasingly becoming the basis of registration of FIRs as compared to human intelligence-based traditional policing.

A comparative study of the registration of FIRs, done by Punjab Police, since the inception of the portal on August 28, last year, shows that the information received from the tipline has led to the registration of 27% of FIRs in the past five months from March 1 to July 5 as compared to mere 2.7% from August 28, 2024, to February 28, this year.

During Phase 1 of operations, till February 28, the helpline received a tot...