Ahead of festive season, polls, cops hold meeting to aid coordination within depts

Prepare road map for exchanging information on criminals, strategise operations to monitor cases

Ahead of the upcoming Ganeshotsav and with the state Assembly elections inching closer, police from all the districts of western Maharashtra have come together to tighten the noose on criminals and check antisocial activities in the districts.

Police have prepared a road map for exchanging information on criminals, coordinating between control rooms, combining operations. The police heads of various districts came together for an inter-district crime coordination border conference in Pune on Wednesday.

Talking about the drive, joint commissioner of police Ravindra Shiswe said, “After committing a crime in Pune city and district, miscreants often take shelter in adjoining districts and criminals from outside come to Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad. But the local police remain ignorant. The meeting was organised to create coordination among them so that there are no untoward incidents during the Gandeshotsav and the impending elections.

Keeping in mind the upcoming festive season, the authorities have given each other confidential information pertaining to gangs operating in their areas to aid easy monitoring of offenders.

With an aim of sharing information regarding investigations and crime control methods, the conference was attended by Suhas Wadke, special inspector general of Kolhapur range; Ravindra Shisve, joint commissioner of Pune police; Sandeep Patil, superintendent of Pune rural police; Ishu Sindhu, superintendent of Ahmednagar police; Manoj Patil, superintendent of Solapur rural police; Bapu Bangar, deputy commissioner of police (DCP) (crime) of Solapur city police, Deepak Sakore, superintendent of government railway police, Pune; Sudhir Hiremath, DCP (crime) of Pimpri-Chinchwad police; Bachchan Singh, DCP (crime) of Pune.

The various police heads have decided to appoint nodal officers for various policing tasks such as crime control, special branch, control room and so on. The officials shared information about cases registered in their jurisdiction and discussed possibility of creating a joint database related to crime in all districts. The issue of violation of experiments by criminals and gang activities was also discussed. The officials are aiming to hold similar conferences every six months.