Skip to main content

Major reshuffle expected in Maharashtra Police leadership

By
The State Home Department in Maharashtra is gearing up for a significant overhaul of its top police leadership, including the position of Director General of Police (DGP) and Police Commissioners of Nagpur and Thane. The impending retirement of the current DGP, Rajnish Seth, on December 31 has prompted the department to commence the process of selecting his successor.A top rank official said that several prominent names have emerged as contenders for the esteemed position of State DGP. The frontrunner is Senior IPS Officer Rashmi Shukla, who currently serves as the Director General (DG) of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB). Mumbai Police Commissioner Vivek Phansalkar is also a strong candidate for the role. Other notable contenders include Thane CP Jaijeet Singh, DG ATS Sadanand Date, DG Police Housing Sandeep Bishnoi, DG Railway Pradnya Sarvade, Additional Director of NIA Atulchandra Kulkarni, and DG State Security Corporation Bipin Kumar Singh, he said. He further stated that the State Home
Post a Comment

Criminals beware..! CCTNS tool to arm Maharashtra Police

By

One had frequently heard the famous dialogue in our Bollywood films, “Kanun ke hath bahut lambe hote hain” (criminals can be tracked down from where ever they are hiding). From film script to see this thing happening in reality there was a long wait. Now criminals who were having an easy option of striking at will and then escaping to other states can soon be tracked down if they happen to trip and commit crime at other places. The Maharashtra Police is readying Crime and Criminal Tracking Network system (CCTNS), part of ambitious national criminal network. State has been chosen for implementation of pilot project and same is being supervised by State Crime Records Bureau (SCRB) stated its head, Spl. Inspector General of Police (IGP) Sanjay Verma. By April 2013 the database of criminals should be in place and work is on at war footing.

About 1,033 police stations and 600 supervisory offices of State Police are to be brought under CCTNS loop and project was rolled out in Uttar Pradesh, Assam and Kerala. After observing IT literacy among Maharashtra Police, the government chose State Police for inclusion in the pilot project.
Advantage of CCTNS would help in quick analysis of crime trends and accompanying data about criminals who are known to be part of that crimes. Further status of various crimes would be available at a click of a mouse to help speed-up investigations and avoid groping in dark when inter-state gangs or criminals are involved. The project has potential to help in investigation, detection and also prevention of crimes. During passport and immigration check, verifying the data would be very valuable for investigators. Besides the officer said there will be a citizens portal where people can provide information on crimes and criminals or get the information for updating their knowledge.

Conversion of data of last 10-years with State Police in CCTNS format has started at 24 places in state and soon remaining units would be covered. Wipro has bagged the contract for system integrator for the project for which Rs 100 crore is sanctioned for Maharashtra.
CCTNS footprint would be all over country for a tracking system of criminals in real time, the most critical requirement in present day internal security challenges. Ministry of Home Affairs conceptualised the project after detailed consultation with stakeholders and took-up “Mission Mode Project (MMP)” and would adopt guidelines of National e-Governance Plan (NeGP), it is learnt. The government has sanctioned Rs 2,000 crore in XIth five-year plan for rolling out CCTNS across the country. CCTNS basic aim is to integrate police networks of respective States for enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of policing at all levels and especially at the Police Station level through adoption of principles of e-Governance.

CCTNS project has four stages i.e. manpower training, digitization, hardware installation, software installation. More than 50 per cent personnel of city police are computer savy and it would be easy for digitisation of data for Crime and Criminals Information System (CCIS) and Common Integrated Police Application (CIPA) whose work has started at Nagpur Police Commissionerate. A special team of Wipro and Nagpur city police are working on the project, informed Deputy Commissioner of Police (Headquarters) Sunil Kolhe.
The police stations and supervisory offices would be connected through BSNL Broadband. Explaining functioning of CCIS, he said, the data stored at one police station would be made available to other police stations and supervisory offices anywhere from India. The ultimate aim is to bring transparency and paperless functioning at police department, the DCP added.

The officer further stated that data of crimes and criminals for the last 10 years would be stored in CCTNS. The information would be stored in unicode standard so that it would be available in various regional languages. Basic data base about criminals and their modus operandi would be available on the citizens portal.
After successful operation in pilot states, the project will be implemented (full fledged) in all 35 States and Union Territories to cover 14,000 Police stations and all 6,000 Higher Police Offices across the country. The CCTNS project will be linked with every police station district police offices, state headquarters, respective State Crime Records Bureau (SCRB) and National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).

Sources said that for the first one year, one private technical expert would be deployed at each police station to ensure that any errors at operating CCTNS are ironed out at ground level.  The system integrator company would be installing the computer machinery at all police stations and look after its maintenance for next five years.

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

IGP Prasanna : The man who stopped Obama’s convoy

By
IGP Mallikarjuna Prasanna By Dheeraj Fartode  Published on Feb/17/2019 NOT many are aware of an episode during the then US President Barack Obama’s visit to India in 2010. The world’s most powerful man was made to wait for 11 minutes in his car while an Indian cop took on American officials for their unwarranted interference in the US President’s security. KM Mallikarjuna Prasanna, Special Inspector General of Police of Nagpur Range, still continues to work with the same pride, wearing his patriotism on the sleeve. “Had they (Americans) deployed their personnel for area security, then the message would have been Indians are unable to protect VIPs in their nation,” recounted Prasanna on the episode that is one of the highlights of his distinguished career of a skillful investigator. The story of the IPS officer of 2000 batch is worth a film. In fact, a movie (Nagarjun-starrer ‘Officer’) has already been made by Ram Gopal Verma last year. His real life script also ha
5 comments
Read more

Longest cable-stayed bridge to boost tourism at Ambhora

By
CONSTRUCTION work of 700-metre-long cable-stayed bridge, longest in the country, with a viewing gallery at the top at Ambhora in Kuhi tehsil is near completion. The bridge would be open for traffic in December this year providing a major boost to tourism at Shree Chaitanyeshwar Mahadev temple at Ambhora. It is set to open doors of development for the backward area of Kuhi and Umred tehsil. Ambhora, located 75 km from Nagpur city, is a famous religious and tourist place in Vidarbha. It is situated at the confluence of five rivers -- Wainganga, Kanhan, Aam, Kolari and Murza. Just around a decade ago the river bank housing Ambhora used to see a flux of tourists from all over the State. However, the banks were submerged in water after the construction of Gosikhurd dam which led to rise in water levels. Since then, tourist flow at Ambhora has also declined. However, now with the construction of the new bridge tourists will get a chance see the scenic backwaters across the river bed which is
Post a Comment
Read more

DCP Sunil Kolhe gets IPS cadre

By
DCP (crime) Sunil Kolhe By Dheeraj Fartode About 28 State Police Service (SPS) officers were granted  Indian Police Service (IPS) cadre on Monday. At Nagpur, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) (Crime) Sunil Kolhe is among these officers. With their promotion, Maharashtra Government will fill-up the existing vacancies of cadre posts across the State. The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), Government of India, approved the promotion and Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), issued the notification of 28 state police officers into IPS cadre.  Maharashtra Government had earlier empanelled the 28 officers for promotion of SPS officers into IPS and criteria was they should have served for atleast eight years as Superintendent of Police (SP) or Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP). The list includes names of officers belonging to Deputy Superintendent of Police (Dy.SP) batches between 1988 and 1995, who were promoted to the IPS cadre. The officers are S V Jadhav, B G
Post a Comment
Read more