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AI Joins the Force: Maharashtra Police Deploys ‘Crime-OS’ for Smarter Investigations

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By Dheeraj Fartode  Imagine a police officer uploads an FIR and within seconds, an AI assistant begins planning the investigation. It write official letters, scan bank data and spot suspicious transactions. It sounds like science fiction - but it’s now reality in Maharashtra. The state police have started using Crime-OS, a powerful Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool developed under the MARVEL project (Maharashtra Research and Vigilance for Enhanced Law Enforcement). This tool, built in partnership with the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Nagpur, works like the co-pilot feature in Microsoft Office - but to solve crimes. It helps police save valuable time and reduces the heavy workload of investigations. Assistant Superitendent of Police (ASP) Deepak Agrawal explained that police investigations usually take a lot of time and effort. Crime-OS is designed to ease that burden. “For example, if a fraud case FIR is uploaded, the tool automatically picks out important information. It t...
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Maharashtra Police awaits governments nod for minor shuffle in top ranks

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By Dheeraj Fartode

Democratic Front government is deliberating on major changes in the top echelons of Maharashtra Police, that includes filling-up of vacancies by way of promotions from Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) to Director General of Police (DGP). Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC) has cleared the promotion list and same is at Mantralay awaiting clearance from coalition partners, said the top officials.
The ball would be set rolling as and when Mumbai’s Commissioner of Police, Dr. Satyapal Singh, who belongs to 1980 batch of Indian Police Service (IPS) is elevated. Right now the post of DG (Home Guards) is vacant but sources said as Dr. Singh’s is yet to complete a year he is not very eager to move-up in rank though he is due for promotion ever since DGP (Home Guards) Sridevi Goyal superannuated.
To succeed Dr. Singh, there are two strong contenders and they are Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Javed Ahmed, currently working in Mumbai Police Commissionerate, and the other name is that of Thane Commissioner of Police K P Raghuwanshi. Two other names are also being discussed in police circle that of ADG (Traffic) V R Kamble and Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief Rakesh Maria.
Director General of Police (DGP) Sanjeev Dayal told ‘The Hitavada’ that Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC) have sanctioned promotions of senior officers in their meeting held last month and we are waiting for approval of State Government.
Sources informed that three ADGP’s posts including ADG (Administration), ADG (Anti-Corruption Bureau) and ADG (Railways) are vacant for past one year. IPS’s 1987 batch officers including Spl. Inspector General (IGP) Coastal Security S N Pandey, Spl. IGP Crime (East and West) CID D Kanakratnam are tipped to get promoted as ADG. DIG (Passport) Vikram Choubey and DIG Amitesh Kumar (Additional CP ATS) names have been cleared for promotion as Special Inspector General of Police (IGP).
There are strong possibilities of promotion to DIG of 1999 IPS batch officers Deepak Pandey (SP Ratnagiri), Kiran Shelar (Mumbai Commissionerate), Nanded SP Vitthal Jadhav, P S Patankar.

Nagpur Rural SP, DCP ACB
could get new postings
At Nagpur Police Commissionerate, the top two officers, Commissioner of Police and Jt. Commissioner of Police would not be disturbed. However, Superintendent of Police, Nagpur Rural, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Anti-Corruption Bureau), DCP Zone I and DCP Zone II are likely to get new postings in the general transfers that are on cards.

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