AURANGABAD: Different police units from Aurangabad range used the pandemic period to clear pending cases, a move that has set a record of sorts in the state.
The four units of Aurangabad range comprising Aurangabad rural, Jalna, Beed and Osmanabad district police successfully disposed off 46,243 pending cases, setting the record for clearing highest pendancy in the state. This feat has been achieved in a span of 14 months between October 2020 and December 31, 2021.
Aurangabad range’s special inspector general of police KM Mallikarjuna Prasanna said they could achieve this feat by introducing more clarity, fixing accountability and at the same time by rewarding every work, irrespective of how small the work a police constable or any officer does.
As per his instructions, an upper limit has been set to the number of cases that are expected to be probed by an investigation officer of particular rank.
Moreover, an internal online system has been started that uses artificial intelligence to track progress in a given case, and alerts the IO as well as his immediate superiors about the same.
Those completing the probe within stipulated time while meeting quality parameters, are rewarded, and the ones failing to meet, are officially reprimanded and punished. A total of 4,194 policemen have been given 16,607 rewards.
The officer said that very few cases, which are either related to economic offences or have been stayed by court, or that are awaiting report from expert agencies, are pending.
“Almost 90% of the cases that are currently investigation, were registered in the last quarter of 2021,” he said.
Police authorities said that the number of body and property offences, as well as law and order situations reduced during lockdown due to which the investigation officers got time and space to complete pending probes.
The range has successfully rescued 2,144 missing women and children. Some of them (946) were missing since 2011.
The four police units have disposed off over 23,000 seized muddemal, 2,665 unclaimed vehicles, freeing up considerable space at all the police offices. Also, a total of 1.42 lakh unwanted files have been disposed off.
During that past one year, 26,483 applications have been received by the four police units, and out of these applications, 1,129 were converted into FIRs, 1,536 into non cognizable offences, 25,554 were disposed off while only 935 are currently pending.
Also, in 37 proposals for externment, 123 active criminals have been externed.
The number of investigation officers from constabulary were 1,358 and have been increased to 2011. The SDPOs from four districts have paid a total of 1,674 visits to police stations in respective jurisdictions.
