Pune Police
After conquering Sindh, as Governor of Bombay Presidency, Sir Charles Napier introduced a new force in 1843 exclusively for police work and having no links with the military.
Thus the total yearly cost of maintaining the police department amounted to £18,962 (Rs.
Of the total strength of 1096, exclusive of the Superintendent, ninety-one, twelve officers and seventy-nine men, were in 1882 employed as guards over treasuries and lockups or as escorts to prisoners and treasure, 239 were posted in towns and municipalities, 153 in cantonments, and 612,103 officers and 509 men, on other duties.
Except for the District Superintendent who was a European and ten officers and three men who were Eurasians, the members of the police department were all natives of India.
EOW investigates complicated white collar crime viz; general, cheating, frauds in banking and medical fields, job racketing, shares and bogus stamp cases.
This cell initiates action against persons who deal in illegal sale and possession of Heroin, Hashish, M.Tabs, Methoquoline, Opium, Ganja, Cocaine, Consumption, Charas, Acetic acid, LSD STR/ ECA, Bhang, Morphine, Prezapam Chemicals, Buprenorphine (Inj.)
The records are classified on the basis of modus – operandi (mode of operations, the particular way of committing a crime) of criminals.
The bureau has upgraded the records of criminals, including photographs, present address, telephone and mobile numbers, details of present activities, number of cases registered against the offender and details of other accomplices if the criminal heads a gang.
[7] This is headed by a DCP and deals with student related crimes, politicians, banned organisation and immigrants.
[8] The Special Branch is responsible for intelligence gathering, foreigners' registration and providing security to VIPs.
[9] SB performs special intelligence functions and has political, labour, student, communal, administrative and miscellaneous wings.
Crime related incidents are recorded at the chowky and registered by police station.
Record of all important offices, different organisations, hotels, gunda elements, history-sheeters is maintained at the chowky.
The Pune Police control room has a system for public assistance called 'Dial 100'.
The control room has ten work stations each equipped with computers using special software that displays the cell/telephone number, name and addresses of a caller and records the call.
The constable sitting on a particular station hears the complainant and prepares a challan of the complaint and sends it to wireless operator who in turn calls the nearest patrolling vehicle or marshal and gives them the details of the assistance required.
The control room also monitors the regular calls from all police stations and patrolling mobiles.
The control room plays an important role to monitor the situation and also provide backup and regroup manpower and resources.
[13] Pune police have formed a 100-member strong Quick Response Team (QRT) to deal with any kind of terror strike in the city.
The QRT operates under the aegis of Special Branch of the Pune City Police.
Every three months, jawans undergo a physical proficiency test (PPT) and constables below the age of 30 are selected for 5 years.
They are trained to handle modern weapons such as Glock pistols, MP5 and AK-47 rifles at high and low frequency firing.
The school is affiliated to the Maharashtra State Board and imparts education from Nursery to Std X.
PPPS was the brain child of then Police Commissioner of Pune, Shri A. N. Roy in 2003.
He wanted an English medium school for the police personnel’s children at affordable rates, thus came up the KG section of the PPPS.
Trafficop is a software application installed on a Blackberry mobile device that stores individual vehicle and license data.
Each offence acts as a red mark on a report card creating a sense of fear and respect for traffic law amongst citizens.
The initiative thus far has succeeded in registering 836,000 offences, suspending 2400 licences, identifying 950 regular offenders, and tracing 200 stolen vehicles.
Higher authorities can monitor the system through a web interface where they can use the data regarding number, type and location of offences to determine traffic patterns and future plans of action.
