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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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State Government approves new hi-tech building for Nagpur Police Commissionerate

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  • There will be a string of offices spread over 1.19 lakh sq.ft
  • Big achievement of my tenure, says Nagpur CP S P Yadav 

By Dheeraj Fartode

After a wait of endless years, Nagpur Police Commissionerate is going to get a new hi-tech office complex in Civil Lines area. Maharashtra Government granted approval for construction of a new office of Commssionerate during a meeting held in Mumbai. As per plan, there will be a string of offices spread over 1.19 lakh sq.ft. and they will come-up behind the existing building housing the office of Commissioner of Police.
State Home Department has approved a budget of Rs. 32 crores, said  Commissioner of Police Sharda Prasad Yadav while talking to The Hitavada on Friday. On Wednesday Guardian Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule had taken a meeting regarding the law and order situation and pending projects of police department at Mumbai. Additional Chief Secretary (ACS Home) K P Bakshi, Finance Secretary, Secretary of Urban Development Department, besides Commissioner of Police and ADG (P&C) Rajinder Singh were present in the meeting.
Proposed plan of new hi-tech office complex 
of Nagpur Police Commissionerate. 

As per the details, Office of Commissioner of Police (CP), Joint CP, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP Headquarters), DCP (Special Branch), Economic Offence Wing (EoW), DCP (Crime Branch) and entire wing of crime branch will be located in the new building. Even Control Room of Nagpur City Police, the nerve centre of police force, will also function from the independent complex that will be clubbed with office of Special Branch.
Right now, the existing premises of commssionerate is woefully short and officers have been relocated all over the city due to paucity of space. The new building will have hi-tech communication facilities and a conference hall. The old building will be utilised as guest house post shifting of commissionerate to new building.
Happy about the approval for new commissionerate building, Commissioner of Police Sharda Prasad Yadav said, the work will commence soon. He said, it's a big achievement that the plan which was in pipeline for long has finally got approved in his tenure. Nagpur Police were badly in need of a modern office space, given its historical importance.
Current building of Nagpur Police Commissionerate. 
Nagpur and Pune Police Commissionerate were the first post independence Police Commissionerate of India formed in the year 1965. First CP of the Nagpur was of the rank of Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Rank and now serving CP is holding the rank of Additional Director General (ADG). Rank of the City’s top cop was elevated in every decade however, office of the Commissioner still remain same since 1965. In the year 2001, Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) had announced the CP office as Heritage building.
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis knowing well the problem of city police department has been clearing one plan after another and the new building for commissionerate too has got his approval.
The Commissioner further informed that tendering process for proposed plan is under process and work will start in next two months. “The entire building would take around two years for completion,” he further said. 

Govt approves funds for construction of six police stations

The State Government has also sanctioned funds for the construction of six police stations including Bajaj Nagar, Kalamna, Hudkeshwar, Yashodhara Nagar, Shanti Nagar. It can be mentioned that NIT have already allotted lands for these police stations. Construction of the police station buildings would start very soon as the State Government has sanctioned funds for the same. 

City police facing shortage of manpower

Nagpur City Police is facing shortage of manpower as many important posts are lying vacant. According to information, three posts of Additional Commissioner of Police (Addl CP), 11 posts of Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACPs), 28 posts of Police Inspectors (PIs), 125 posts of PSI and 27 posts of APIs are lying vacant in the Police Commissionerate. CP Yadav had raised the issue in the meeting and ACS Home assured that these posts will be filled-up very soon.

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