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Sniffer Dogs to hunt Drugs, Drones to scan rooftops and 131 police checking points

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The City police have put in place a high-tech security plan for New Year’s Eve to ensure safe and peaceful celebrations. Sniffer dogs will be used to hunt down drug consumption on city roads, while drones will scan rooftops and isolated areas to prevent illegal activities. In addition, police will set up checking and nakabandi at 131 points across the city to keep strict watch on drunk driving and maintain law and order throughout the night. Around 2,500 policemen, from police constables to the Police Commissioner , will be deployed on city roads to ensure public safety and prevent any untoward incidents during the celebrations. Sniffer dogs to check drug consumption Commissioner of Police (CP) Dr Ravinder Kumar Singal said that rising drug consumption has been taken very seriously. To curb this menace, the police will use sniffer dogs to check vehicles on city roads. Three special dog squads will be deployed to detect drug use. “These dogs are trained to identify all kinds of narc...
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Three youths planning to join IS nabbed in Nagpur

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Arrested youths Hasan Farooq and Abdullah Basith are third year B.Tech students while Sayyed Omar is in B Sc final year The youths arrived in Nagpur from Hyderabad by road to catch a flight to Srinagar but were nabbed by the ATS Nagpur and Telangana Police The youths were directly taken to Hyderabad from Nagpur airport The IS recruiters were planning to take them to Syria via Pakistan-Afghanistan By Dheeraj Fartode THREE radicalised youths from Hyderabd aspiring to join dreaded terror outfit Islamic State (IS) were nabbed in a joint operation by Anti-Terrorism Squad of Maharashtra and Telangana Police at Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport, here, while trying to board a Srinagar-bound flight in the wee hours of Saturday.  A team of Telangana Police took the three youths to Hyderabad to interrogate them to ascertain their links with terrorist organisations. The youths are identified as Hasan Farooq Aiaz Wasim (21), a resident of Flat No 202, Muskan Hayat A...
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City witnessed highest number of morchas

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------------------------ Year Morchas ------------------------ 2005 86 2006 53 2007 53 2008 77 2009 81 2010 95 2011 83 2012 91 2013 101 2014 95 2015 123 ---------------------- By Dheeraj Fartode The winter session of Maharashtra Legislature held in city this year witnessed highest number of morchas. About 123 different organisations marched to Vidhan Bhavan to press for their various demands. After Gowari stampede in 1994, casualties during the morcha were witnessed this year only. A farmer and a youngster lost their lives during the course of morchas. Beside an underlying feature this year was that organisation taking out morchas were more vocal and desperate and put pressure on the policemen deployed on bandobast leading to use of force. The police were required to use force twice during this year winter session, leading to injuries. The morchas of  Maha...
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Going back to basic policing is Dixit’s main concern

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By Dheeraj Fartode  Going to the basics of policing is the core principle of Pravin Dixit, the soft-spoken Director General of Police of Maharashtra. He does not raise his voice, not even his eye-brows, but speaks with a firmness that suits his position so well. The authenticity in his words makes all the difference. As is his wont, DGP Pravin Dixit wishes to go to the basics of various issues of policing -- from recording of First Information Report (FIR) to combating Naxalism. Over the years, he has evolved a novel approach to the issue of offering security to the citizens whose help he seeks in policing. Police force cannot act as an island in this vast society and it has to act in tandem with the larger society, he suggests through various statements during an exclusive interview with ‘The Hitavada’. Talking to him is not just pleasure, but also a great learning of many human values, modesty being the most critical. He carries no airs, but talks with a firmness that defies ...
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1.5 lakh 'Police Mitra' for pro-people policing

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1.5 lakh Police Mitra joins hands of Maharashtra Police  Police Mitra will be use for intelligence gathering in urban areas  Many cases solved with help of Police Mitra CommissioneratePolice Mitra Mumbai  6484 Thane 6420 Navi Mumbai 2162 Pune Nashik 5510 Solapur 1914 Aurangabad 1410 Nagpur 1201 By Dheeraj Fartode The scheme of ‘Police Mitra’ holds the potential to change the policing in State and bridge the widening gap between citizens and the men in khaki. Across the State the policemen have enrolled 1.5 lakh citizens as Police Mitra till date. The number is equal to current size of uniformed men in the police department.  Police Mitra The programme, a brain child of Director General of Police (DGP) Praveen Dixit, hopes to win back support of man on the street. With citizens closely involved with police, the web of suspicion that always befell the policemen can be resolved and also help overcome the reservation ...
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Mystery deepens over death of Adv Khandalkar

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The lawyer was alive for 2.35 hours and died on Sunday at 7 pm, claims police giving a new twist to entire case  Probe handed over to Crime Branch  Relatives suspect foul play in suspicious death  By Dheeraj Fartode Mystery deepened over suspicious death of Adv Shrikant Khandalkar as Sadar Police on Monday made a sensational disclosure that Adv Khandalkar was alive at 4.35 pm when the body was first discovered by the cops. He was alive but unconscious for two hours and 25 minutes, the police said. The medical treatment was offered to him, but he succumbed to injuries at 7 pm.   This revealation has shattered all previous theories about suicide or homicide and about the timing of his death and gave a new twist to ongoing investigation. It was believed that his dead body was lying in garbage in the backside of Nyay Mandir and perhaps the death occured on Saturday evening. But, if police release is to be believed, Khandalkar was alive when his badly mangled...
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