The State Home Department in Maharashtra is gearing up for a significant overhaul of its top police leadership, including the position of Director General of Police (DGP) and Police Commissioners of Nagpur and Thane. The impending retirement of the current DGP, Rajnish Seth, on December 31 has prompted the department to commence the process of selecting his successor.A top rank official said that several prominent names have emerged as contenders for the esteemed position of State DGP. The frontrunner is Senior IPS Officer Rashmi Shukla, who currently serves as the Director General (DG) of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB). Mumbai Police Commissioner Vivek Phansalkar is also a strong candidate for the role. Other notable contenders include Thane CP Jaijeet Singh, DG ATS Sadanand Date, DG Police Housing Sandeep Bishnoi, DG Railway Pradnya Sarvade, Additional Director of NIA Atulchandra Kulkarni, and DG State Security Corporation Bipin Kumar Singh, he said. He further stated that the State Home ...
Cops are reluctant to file mobile theft cases
Citizens of Nagpur have lost 30,946 mobile phones in last six years though officially only 1,300 have been registered as being stolen by unknown thieves. The statistics indicate growing trend of mobile thefts and missing cases across the city over the past five years.
In response to an RTI application filed by The Hitavada, Nagpur Police have furnished statistics of mobile missing cases and theft cases which reveals machinery’s approach to not recognise mobile loss as theft and merely record it as a missing case. Many police stations have not filed a single mobile missing or mobile theft cases “some” years.
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The cumulative statistics of Nagpur Commissionerate since year 2010 stated that total 29,646 mobile phones were stolen in six years and, 1,300 mobile theft cases were reported in the city.
In the year 2010, Nagpur police registered 2,988 mobile missing cases and 135 mobile theft cases. In the year 2011, missing cases increased a bit and touched 3,057 while 143 mobile theft cases were registered. Next year i.e. 2012, a total 2,928 mobile phones went missing but officially only 146 were recorded as stolen. In the year 2013, the mobile missing and theft cases almost doubled and rose to 6,369 and 260 respectively. The instances of mobile missing cases decreased in year 2014 however, the number of mobile thefts increased. The city police registered 302 mobile theft cases while 4,901 missing cases were registered. Most alarming trend was noticed last year as whopping 9,403 mobiles went missing in city along with 314 mobile theft cases.
Official figures about the police station wise missing mobile cases and theft cases between year 2010 and year 2015 reveals that some police stations have registered the moble theft cases without any inhibition while some did not even accepted mobile missing cases.
For example, not a single mobile phone went missing or stolen from Gittikhadan and Jaripatka police station area in year 2015. But this is far from truth, since as a matter of strategy many police stations simply shooed away complainants and refused to acknowledge the incident of mobile theft.
Imambada and Nandanvan police stations have registered whopping 2,030 and 1,941 mobile missing cases in a year. Sakkardara, Hudkeshwar, Ajni and Dhantoli Police Stations have registered 1227, 902, 855 and 688 mobile missing cases respectively. All these six police stations fell under then Zone IV of the city police.
Analysis of statistics proved that there is trend of registration of missing cases in various zones and police stations. Ambazari police station has registered only 16 missing cases, Rana Pratap Nagar police has registered only 35 cases, Kotwali registered 46 cases, Kalmana has registered 69 cases in a year.
Every police station of city police covers around 1 lakh population. But the variation in instances of theft raises some elementary questions as to how can there be only 16 cases of missing mobiles in Ambazari police station area when neighbouring Sitabuldi police station area recorded missing report of 613 mobile phones.
A senior police officer said that police station officers used to deal with mobile theft cases as mobile missing cases as they are directed to keep statistics “under controll.” Hence, the figure of mobile missing cases is far more than number of mobile theft cases. “If cops will freely register mobile thefts then the cops will have deal with extra paper work. It will also double the figure yearly crime statistics of each police station and pressure of detection,” the officer said.
Former Director General of Police (DGP) Pravin Dixit told The Hitavada that complaint about non-registration of mobile thefts by police stations were pouring at DGP office. Hence, a “e-mobile complaint App” was launched for free registration of mobile thefts and missing cases.
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