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 ...
EVEN as the city fights a pitched battle against novel coronavirus (Covid-19), it has recorded a positive news on another front. There is a drastic reduction in crime cases in the last two months. As against 134 crimes reported in last week of January, Nagpur witnessed just 39 crimes during the lockdown period of last week of March as the criminals are also scared of the deadly coronavirus.
Joint Commissioner of Police (Joint CP) Ravindra Kadam said that the substantial drop in the crime was result of stricter implementation of lockdown. “The criminals are not even daring to come out from the home as the police have blocked the movement of vehicles,” Kadam said.
Statistics of crime reported at Nagpur from January 24 to 31 and March 24 to 31 of Nagpur Police show huge drop in theft cases during lockdown period enforced by the government to contain spread of the virus.
Total crime dropped by 70.89 per cent during the lockdown as compared to January last week. As against 53 theft cases in January, the city reported just nine theft cases during the lockdown period. Similarly, burglary cases also reduced to six in March last week as against 11 cases in January last week. As against six robberies, the city reported just one robbery case during lockdown while cases of crime against women reduced to three from six.
Importantly, murder cases have not shown any sign of abatement with one case each reported in the last week of both months. However, not a single attempt to murder case was reported.
Other Indian Penal Code (IPC) crime cases also saw substantial drop, the data says. A total of 54 other IPC cases were reported in the last week of January while the city saw drop of 68.51 per cent by registering 54 cases after lockdown.
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