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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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Traffic police serves massive 51,475 e-challans to motorists

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Traffic Control Branch has recorded violations of traffic norms by 51,475 citizens in a period of three and half months. And among the eight traffic zones, highest violations of 9433 that is almost 18.33 per cent were reported from Sitabuldi Zone that comprises of middle portion of city.
With 3,300 installed cameras, City Operation Centre (CoC) is helping police in preparing the e-challans. A team of traffic police constables deployed at the CoC for monitoring footages of major junctions zoom into pictures and zero on the violators.
According to statistics of Traffic Control Branch, a total of 38,950 bikers (75.66 per cent) were served e-challans for not wearing helmet while riding the bike, 1,998 persons for crossing the stop line, 956 for triple seat riding, 4,493 four-wheeler drivers for not wearing seat belts, 157 for fancy number plates, 51 for using mobile phone while driving, 59 for wrong side driving, 283 for no parking, 736 for single jumping, 3,511 for over seat driving and 19 served e-challans for underage riding. 
Out of total 51,475 e-challans, maximum 9,433 motorists (18.32 per cent) were fined in Sitabuldi area, followed by 8,410 (16.33 per cent) in Ajni area, 6,575 (12.75 per cent) in Sadar area, 6,320 (12.27 per cent) in Indora area, 5,979 (11.61 per cent) in Sonegaon area, 4,825 (9.32 per cent) Cotton Market area and 4,042 (7.85 per cent) in MIDC area. 
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Gajanan Rajmane informed The Hitavada that instilling sense of responsibility among the citizens is sole reason for issuing the e-challans on such a large number. “We have focused on accident-prone spots while issuing the e-challans,” he further informed. The e-challans are being generated automatically after putting vehicle number in server and it is sent to the violator’s address along with the CCTV grab.
The rising number of two wheeler is putting pressure on city roads and given the way ward riding by riders who seems perennially in hurry, traffic police attempt to make use of technology to hilt. Apart from conventional policing, DCP Rajmane said the system of e-challans attempts to rein in rash drivers and attempt to discipline citizens.


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