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...
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis will inaugurate Nagpur police’s new age training centre -- Nagpur Centre of Police Service Excellence (N-Cops Excellence) -- at Patel Bungalow near Chhaoni T-Point on Tuesday evening. “This centre being created for the first time in any police unit in Maharashtra. The services of this centre will be extended to other districts of Vidarbah too,” said Commissioner of Police Dr. K. Venkatesham. Addressing a press conference at the well furnished N-Cops excellence center, the Police Commissioner informed that the center has been formed to achieve excellence in all the services of Nagpur police. “This is the transformation laboratory for the city police which will undertake various activities like professional development, E-learning, digital resources, traffic training, personality development courses and citizen awareness courses like counseling for drunken drivers, correct usage of digital payments and cyber crime do's and don’ts etc. T...