By A Staff Reporter

Kathmandu, Apr. 21: The trend of defying the lockdown in Kathmandu has sharply declined after the police administration in coordination with the community volunteers started implementing the restriction.
Number of people arrested for violating the lockdown in Kathmandu was found in a decreasing trend, according to the Metropolitan Police Office (MPO), Ranipokhari.
According to the one week data (April 13 to 19), 2,993 people had defied the lockdown on April 13 (Baisakh 1) whereas only 1,233 had defied it on April 19.
Police have been providing the data of the lockdown violators in every 12 hours starting from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Deputy Inspector General and chief at MPO Bishwa Raj Pokhrel said.
On April 15, 3,267 people along with 774 women were nabbed for violating the lockdown, and it was the highest number of people nabbed on a single day of the week, according to Pokhrel.
“Cases of lockdown violation have been falling every day in the valley after we mobilised local level volunteers in the municipalities level and city areas to cooperate with the police,” DIG Pokhrel said.
The practice of violating the lockdown in the valley was high especially outside the ring road and newly developed city areas where there used to low mobility and presence of police, he said.
Knowing this, the MPO joined hands with the local volunteers under community-police partnership programme of Nepal Police to implement the lockdown effectively, DIG Pokhrel said.
In the major city and core inner places of Kathmandu, Control Room Vehicles (CRVs) have been mobilised to implement the lockdown, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) and spokesperson at MPO Shyam Lal Gyawali said.
Police have been making every lockdown violator stand up on the road and giving lecture on the impact of the virus.
According to the police, from April 13 to 19, police arrested 2,993, 2427, 3,267, 1,441, 1,841, and 1,233 people respectively in Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur districts.
Police had also impounded 214 motorbikes and seven four wheelers on April 13, 320 bikes and 50 four wheelers on April 14, 369 bikes and 39 four wheelers on April 15, 420 bikes and 49 four wheelers on April 16, 354 bikes and 26 four wheelers on April 17, 244 bikes and 16 four wheelers on April 18 and 356 bikes and four four-wheeler on April 19.