Patna, July 20: The Assembly session in Parliament and not escalating crime seems to be a motivating force for the capital’s men in uniform.

Police, to keep the political bigwigs safe from embarrassing questions during the ongoing monsoon session in the Assembly, seem to be working quite hard, sometimes biting off more than they can chew.

The recent raids on two restaurants of the capital, which the police thought would bring them laurels, boomeranged drawing flak from all corners.

Sources add that the police work overtime so that their political bosses in the ruling alliance can answer all queries related to law and order, if the Opposition raises posers.

“It is a fact. It happens during each of the three Assembly sessions — budget, monsoon and winter. The pressure is a bit too much on the police during the time. The senior officers are rattled with questions and they have to provide facts and figures to the leaders to support the answers,” a senior police officer told The Telegraph.

During the budget session in March, the police arrested some big names associated with the Rs 150-crore Muskaan scandal.

On March 30, the police busted a human trafficking racket, the tentacles of which extend as far as Pakistan. The same month, the police nabbed as many as 80 men with criminal antecedents in just one night in simultaneous raids across 70 police stations of the capital.

February was a tumultuous month for the police. Cases of murders, robberies and loots rocked the capital, but strangely no arrest was made apart from a few raids on some cyber cafés.

On February 9, a Central Reserve Police Force jawan shot a national-level kabaddi player outside Moin-ul-Haq Stadium.

“It could also have been the police’s ploy to shift attention,” another police officer said.

During the winter session last December, the police introduced schemes such as the unique number in autorickshaws, the anti-rash driving cell, the police assistance booth at Patna railway junction, the Patna police women’s cell among others.

Moreover, apart from the overzealous moral policing of the cops after raids on restaurants this week, the cops claimed to have busted many sex rackets. The police have also formed the anti-human trafficking cell this month to try and relocate sex workers nabbed in raids, giving them employment opportunities.

“We are always doing our work. Arrests and breakthroughs take place each month and they cannot be attributed to the Assembly sessions. But it has to be accepted that the police remain under pressure during these sessions,” another officer said.