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...
By Dheeraj Fartode
The cold war between Director General of Police (DGP) Sanjeev Dayal and his officers is now out in open, forcing Maharashtra Government to sit-up and take notice. Three senior police officers have lodged a complaint against DGP with Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Amitabh Ranjan. They stated that DGP directed them not to attend a meet called by Chief Minister for review of law & order situation in State.
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis in fact has not taken very lightly the DGP's directive to his officers. This is been seen as an open defiance by DGP to State's authority as the former reportedly prevented three top officials from attending a meeting convened by Chief Minister during the last month. Fadnavis has directed ACS (Home) to conduct an inquiry and submit him a report.
When the trio was asked explanation for absence from the meeting, they squarely blamed DGP Dayal who they claimed told them they need not come. The Home department has taken a very strong objection to this action, which is perceived as an attempt to directly challenge the authority of Chief Minister who also holds Home department and has every right to call and consult any officer of any department.
Creating a flutter in the police ranks, Additional Directors-General of Police (ADGPs) Himanshu Roy, Sanjay Barve and Hemant Nagrale dashed of the complaint against their boss, Dayal, to ACS.
The three officers have also alleged ill-treatment on part of Dayal and also listed many other instances that they say has forced them to write the complaint to Government. DGP has also ruffled the feathers of many officers in the state police owing to his overbearing style of functioning. The officer is known to be stricter of rules and the inflexible style has affected many of his officers.
Similarly, Mumbai CP Rakesh Maria is not much in league with DGP after many of his trusted lieutenants were moved out of Mumbai Commissionerate. Roy was posted from his high profile post of Joint CP (Crime) Mumbai to head Anti-Terrorism Squad.
Maria's team of officers, many of them in rank of Inspectors and Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACPs) were shifted out of Mumbai during the during Lok Sabha and Assembly elections.
ADGPs Roy, Barve and Nagrale in their complaint to ACS (Home) feared that DGP would mess-up their annual confidential record which in future may affect their chances of getting executive posting.
Similarly, DGP Dayal has also slighted a request from a top official of Home Department to favour latter's daughter who was picked-up during a raid on a party at Lonavala in Pune district.
One more thing that is going against the DGP is the coterie which has formed around the state police boss at his office. This coterie is allegedly running the state police affairs, the department officials feel.
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