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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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New SP (Rural) Anant Rokde to stress upon community policing

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  • New Rural SP Anant Rokde asked senior officers to keep agenda in their mind 

By Dheeraj Fartode

Community policing will be the main thrust of policing of Anant Rokde, newly appointed Superintendent of Police (SP) of Nagpur Rural. “Efforts would be made to ensure feel of security among the residents of district especially Kamptee and Kanhan. Hence, concept of ‘Mohalla committee’ would be implemented in sensitive areas,” said SP Rokde. 
Superintendent of Police Anant Rokde making a
point during a press conference on Saturday. 
Addressing a press conference on Saturday, Rokde said that maintaining communal harmony, check on illegal sand mining and transportation, check on illegal public transport are on his top priority. “I have conducted a crime meeting recently and asked all officers to keep the agenda in their mind,” said Rokde. 
Informing about Kamptee SDPO had made presentation of communal riots and current situation in Kamptee and Kanhan area during the crime meeting, Rokde informed that on the lines of ‘Mohalla committee’ concept which was successfully implemented in riot-hit Bhiwandi, the Rural Police would also implement the concept at Kamptee and Kanhan so that people could feel sense of security, said Rokde. 

Joint action against illegal sand mining 

On the issue of illegal sand excavation and transportation, Rokde said that he met District Collector Sachin Kurve in this regard. The District Collector is ready to address a meeting of all senior police officers so that the officers could learn about current situation sand ghat auction. RTO, District mining officer and Rural Police would jointly launched action against illegal sand mining and transportation soon, he said.  

Farm houses on radar of Rural Police

When journalist informed Rokde about illegal activities run by anti-social elements in farm houses, Rokde assured that a detail report about farm houses in the district would be made. All Police Stations would be directed to put check on any illegal activities in the farm house, he said. 

SDPO will take action against illegal public transport

On the issue illegal public transport in the district, SP Rokde said that SDPO have power to suspend the registration of any vehicle if the vehicle involved in the illegal public transport. “I will direct all SDPOs for stern action against such transport,” he said. On the issue of road fatalities in district, the SP claimed that Rural Police have identified 156 accident prone points and district collector has assured the police for help to corrective measures at the points. 
Police Inspectors Sanjay Purandare, Chandrashekhar Bahadure, APIs Arvind Saraf were prominently present in the press conference. 

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