INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
MUMBAI: Powai resident Pradip Waghmare would have remained untraced after murdering his 75-year-old grandmother Shashikala for her gold
Waghmare, unaware that the police had reopened the case, made a call via Facebook Messenger to a relative in 2021 that eventually exposed
conducted, the role of technology will feature in most of them
companies and housing societies), drones for unmanned monitoring (as was done during the Covid lockdown) and automatic number plate
either solve or provide valuable clues to over 1,000 cases every year
This is a small number considering that 174 different types of crimes are registered every day in Mumbai
Experts, though, say this is just the start of the digital revolution blowing across the world of policing.Most of the tech upgrade of the
Mumbai police is a part of the two-phase Mumbai City Surveillance Project
Already, Mumbai, along with the rest of Maharashtra, is creating a digital database of criminals using face and iris recognition along with
fingerprint scanning technologies
voice fingerprinting, the future in policing appears to be almost here
The tech upgrade helps in different ways as the Economic Offences Wing of Mumbai police found out last month
They tapped the open source intelligence (OSINT), which helps gather information about criminals, cases or websites, to zero down on
73-year-old city developer Jagdish Ahuja.Ahuja, who was hiding in Punjab, had changed his location and switched off his mobile phone, but
EOW examined the social media accounts of some of his family members and relatives and tracked his location before rushing to arrest
him.Technology has also been a boon for police coordination and administration in other ways as well
The police now submit voluminous chargesheets on pen drives instead of making zerox copies of thousands of pages
The amount of paper saved can be gauged from the recent pen drive submission of a 2.74-lakh-page chargesheet in the NSEL scam of over Rs
5,400 crore where each of the three dozen accused had to be given a separate copy.Since the pandemic began in March 2020, the police have
started virtual communication via video conferencing
that through an IPDR, the police are able to analyse the IP address where the internet is used for committing crimes
