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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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Staff crunch in RPF crippling Railway passenger's security

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Railway Board is continuously hammering RPF to focus more on passenger security but not taking any decision to remove shortage


By Dheeraj Fartode
Indian Railway makes no bones about its commitment to passenger security and railway property yet Railway Protection Force (RPF) finds itself grappling with staff shortage. The paramilitary force is reeling with vacancies with nearly 50% seats of constabulary lying vacant in Nagpur Division. Inspite of shortage the Central Railway and South East Central Railway directed its division to spare manpower for election duty.
Two companies of SECR and 20 constables of CR are current on election duties.
According to information, sanctioned strength of RPF CR at Nagpur Division is 576 including 380 constabulary force. 160 seats of constabulary force are lying vacant as Central Railway Headquarters have not bothered to fill-up vacancies since last four years.
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In SECR, 526 is the sanctioned strength of force including 430 posts of constabulary. According to sources, about 220 posts of constables are vacant at Nagpur Division. 
In Central Railway's Nagpur Division there are eight RPF stations and seven outpost while in SECR's division has six station and six outposts. Sources informed that the force has become top heavy as there are ample number of middle and senior officers but the men needed in field, the constables, are missing from RPF. This situation is ultimately resulted in compromises on security of passenger and railway property in the division. 
Sources said Railway Board is continuously hammering RPF to focus more on passenger security but at same time former is not taking any decision to remove shortage. Thefts in running trains and railway station premises is now becoming a cause of concern, as there is simply not enough manpower to man all the trains whose number are increasing everyday.
There are guidelines from Railway Board to conduct regular searches at Passenger Reservation System (PRS) but this too is affected and same is reflected in annual data of RPF at both the division.
When contacted Sr. Divisional Security Commandant (Sr. DSC), Central Railway, Nagpur Division, Ibrahim Sheriff, accepted that the force is little stretched but at the same time he contended that matter is under control. New recruitment has begun and within year end the vacancies would be filled-up.
Efforts to elicit view of division officials of SECR, Nagpur Division, went in vain as Divisional Security Commandant (DSC) D B Gaur did not respond to repeated calls. But it was learnt that SECR's Nagpur Division is very much stretched and part of its jurisdiction falls in Naxal Zone and yet manpower is not being given to the force. 
Due to shortage of manpower some strategic points cannot be manned and the sources cited the example of removal of pandrol clips on Kalumna-Itwari stretch.
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