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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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Dhantoli: 1813 booked for violating traffic rules

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Within 15-days of declaring ‘no parking zone’ in Dhantoli, Traffic Police have booked as many as 1,813 vehicle-riders/drivers for violating traffic rules under Motor Vehicles Act. Of these, 1,029 have been booked for parking vehicle in ‘no parking zone’, 685 for violation of one-way traffic rule, and 99 for other violations. 

Senior Police Inspector (Traffic) Jayesh Bhandarkar informed that a team of Traffic Police was deployed in Dhantoli to book violators of traffic rules. Local residents are happy with the police action as they have got relief from unauthorised parking, traffic jam, and noise pollution that had become regular features in Dhantoli. Cases of violation of traffic rules are decreasing gradually in Dhantoli area as citizens are becoming aware about the new rules, he said. 
City Police had issued a notification last month and created 18 ‘no parking zones’ and specified three lanes for one-way movement of traffic in Dhantoli to regulate the chaotic traffic. Now, the cops are planning to effect change in movement of traffic in Ramdaspeth, Sitabuldi, Gandhibag, and Mahal areas of the city. 

Along with tough measures, Traffic Police are also counseling people, guiding them on directions to take for reaching their destination to avoid inconvenience to them. Dhantoli is a medical hub and a large number of people coming there are outsiders, and hence the cops are counseling and guiding the people. Another police officer said that other lanes in Dhantoli would also be converted into one-ways after observing success of the drive and response of the residents. 
A police team will take stock of availability of parking space in all hospitals in Dhantoli and Ramdaspeth areas and initiate necessary action. “We will not allow parking of business houses on roads and footpaths. If anyone uses the parking place for other purposes then joint team of police and NMC will take action,” the officer warned. 

Suretech Hospital makes available parking space 

Employees of Suretech Hospital vacating
the space for parking of visitors’ vehicles 
Responding to the effort of City Police to decongest Dhantoli area, Suretech Hospital vacated some space in its premises to make available parking place for visitors. A team of Traffic Police and Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) officials, on June 2, had reached Suretech Hospital to create space for parking of vehicles. The hospital administration sought time till June 16. Accordingly, it shifted oxygen cylinders and other material kept in its premises to other place, and created space for parking of vehicles. 

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