It’s been mysterious at Mumbai where the thieves are targeting much challenging prey – the cops. But the post incident efforts of the department in tracing the chain snatcher of Mumbai’s centre region ACP’s wife is really amusing and commendable.

All 20 police stations in the centre region and their force of 5,000 officers have not been able to nail the chain snatcher who attempted to seize a senior cop's wife's gold chain. The issue in question is not the delay but the modus operandi adopted by them to identify the offender who attempted to snatch Additional Police Commissioner Qaiser Khalid's wife's chain at Dadar over a week ago, needs to be retrospected.

The unconventional manner in which the investigation is being conducted makes it quite a spectacle, as the identification parades are not done at the police station. Mrs. Sumana, the wife of Khalid saab, looks at the chain snatchers from behind a mesh in her house. The identification parade happens outside her house instead of a police station, as is usually the case.

On October 3, an unknown chain snatcher had attempted to flee with the gold chain of Sumana (39) near Shivaji Park in Dadar (West). And ever since then teams of police men bring the suspected and the parade goes on. Meanwhile in another incident, barely a week after a attempt to chain snatching, car thieves made away with a jeep, belonging to Anuradha Venkateshan, a steno at the police commissioner's office. A complaint has been registered at a local police station in Matunga.

So danger spells loom on the men in uniform, because with such daring thieves on the prowl, their loss is in two ways, one is the robbery and the second being humiliation.