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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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‘Jail Wapsi’ : Police catches 62 prisoners released on parole during Covid pandemic

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The Nagpur City police have caught 62 prisoners of Central Jail who did not return to the jail despite their parole period being over. These prisoners were released by the State on parole in 2020 to decongest jails during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Commissioner of Police (CP) Amitesh Kumar said that the special operation was conducted to catch these prisoners released on parole. The list of such prisoners was procured from the Central Jail and all police station officers were tasked to catch the prisoners. The police staff visited the residences of these prisoners and took them into the jail.

“We have managed to catch 62 prisoners who were not returned to jail despite their parole period being over. Ten such prisoners are yet to be caught,” he said, adding that some of them are ailing and bed-ridden.

The police have prepared a list of 48 prisoners whose parole will be over this month. The concerned police station officers have been tasked to send the prisoner back to jail on the last day of his parole.

Parole is given to a prisoner for a specific reason like the death of a relative or to attend the marriage of a family member, and is subject to the prisoner’s behaviour. When the Covid-19 cases started surging across the State in 2020, the Home Department had issued guidelines to the jail administration to release the prisoners on parole to decongest the jail. Whopping 11,000 prisoners were released on parole after the orders. The parole period was extended by the jail administration from time to time during the second and third wave. On May 5, the Home Department issued orders to stop extending the parole period after which the police swung into action.

493 absconding in East Vidarbha

An officer of Central Jail said that a total of 493 prisoners from Nagpur city and district, Bhandara, Gondia, Chandrapur and Gadchiroli districts were absconding after their parole period was over. The police administration of the concerned district have been informed about it, the official said.


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