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

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...

Zone-2 : Thefts cases reduce, serious crime increases worry


By Dheeraj Fartode
DCP Zone II Sanjay Latkar who took over reins in August and before that DCP Shantaram Waghmare maintained a tight vigil in the Zone in year 2014. 
DCP Sanjay Latkar
The DCP’s  succeeded in reducing thefts cases. However, there is slight increase in cases of murder, attempt to murder, dacoity and also in crime against women. The Zone covers police stations viz Panchpaoli, Jaripatka, Koradi, Sadar and Gittikhadan, and they registered 1018 crime cases in Class I-V, an increase of 65 cases as pervious year the figure was 953 cases. The Zone have however fared better on detection front as they cracked 453 cases in year 2014, a jump of 15% compared to previous year. Five criminals under MPDA Act was slapped on five goons and 29 others were externed.
Out of  23 murder cases and 25 attempt to murder cases, the Zone detected 21 murders and 19 attempt to murder cases. Jaripatka police station recorded eight murders followed by seven in Koradi, five in Panchpaoli, three in Koradi and nil in Sadar police station's jurisdiction.  About 706 thefts were reported in the Zone and 214 of them were detected and Sadar police station recorded maximum cases i.e. 208.
Figures of crime against women put the Zone under scanner as the jump is of 50% in rape and 100% in molestation cases in year 2014. In 2013, just 21 cases of rape and 53 molestation cases were reported and last year the figures  are 31 rape cases and 98 molestation cases in year 2014.

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