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
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| Nagpur CP Amitesh Kumar |
Seventeen robberies within a span of nine days shows an alarming rise in street crime which has shaken the city police. With the onset of monsoon, the crime graph in the city normally tends to nose dive. All of sudden the robbers are on a looting spree indicating the loosening grip of the law and enforcement agency.
According to statistics of Nagpur police, a whooping 17 robberies were reported between August 1 to 9. In July and June, the city police registered 13 and 4 robbery cases respectively. In these 19 robbery cases, the victims were pedestrians or travelling on the two-wheelers and targeted by the robbers on the busy streets.
Despite round the clock surveillance of 3,200 CCTV cameras, the robbers could still escape to their destination. Bajaj Nagar, Gittikhadan, Hudkeshwar, Sitabuldi, Nandanvan and Pardi are the most affected police stations from where this daring loots were reported. Not only the streets have become unsafe, the robbers are striking at their will as citizens are not safe even inside their shops. In one of the cases, the robbers snatched the gold chain of a medical shopkeeper when he was present in the shop in the Nandanvan area.
It may be mentioned here that the highest robbery cases were registered in the city in March this year when 23 persons were robbed in separate incidents. Later the cases started to decline but many of these robbery cases were not solved by the police. If the spurt in robbery cases in August continues with current speed, the city will witness around 50 robberies in a single month,” said a senior police official.
Another official argued that the current trend would start to decline if the police manage to arrest the culprits. He also claimed that there are two to three gangs behind the street robberies. Perhaps the old defaulters who were in jail have come out and are back in business. In such circumstances, the cops just have to glance through the records and hound out the criminals and push them back to jail to control the street crimes.
People close to city police claim that the field units are under pressure to showcase breakthroughs and every team is busy in detection of thefts -- house-breaking thefts and vehicle thefts. Recent success of the city police in detection of thefts was quite admirable but in the process the focus shifted from street policing to photo opp and this might have resulted in spurt in robberies, felt a retired police official.
Nagpur witnesses 9 murders in July
After registering 11 murders in March this year, the city witnessed whopping nine murders in July. Most of the cases are related to family disputes, claimed a police official. In June, the city witnessed five murders and six attempt to murder cases. A total of three murders have been reported till August 9.
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