Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis at the inauguration of Pune Metro Line 3 (Pink Line) on Tuesday
Pune: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis urged Pimpri-Chinchwad police to adopt modern technologies to strengthen crime prevention and detection, warning that the rapidly expanding industrial township could have a larger population than Pune over the next 15 years. The state govt has provided 65 new vehicles, four drones and 350 body-worn cameras to the Pimpri Chinchwad police. After handing over the 7/12 land extract of the 50-acre plot at Tathawade to the police department and laying the foundation stone for the construction of the Pimpri police commissionerate, Fadnavis said Maharashtra Police ranked first in the country in terms of responding to emergencies. Police will have to adopt technological solutions for policing, and dial 112 emergency response system has reduced police response time to three minutes, and Pimpri Chinchwad police ranks first in the state in this regard. Officers and personnel of the police commissionerate contributed one day’s salary towards relief for drought-affected people in the state, raising Rs 1 crore for Chief Minister’s Relief Fund.
The independent CCTV and Integrated Traffic Management System (ITMS) projects were also launched.
He said, “The police in Maharashtra have always responded promptly to emergency situations, making the force the best in the country. He also said work was under way to develop AI as an assistant for the police machinery and that investigations into all crimes would be entirely AI-based in the coming years. Fadnavis was speaking after inaugurating various projects of the Pimpri Chinchwad police commissionerate. Union minister of state for aviation Murlidhar Mohol, deputy chief minister and guardian minister Sunetra Pawar, deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde, higher and technical education minister Chandrakant Patil, minister of state for home Yogesh Kadam, minister of state Madhuri Misal and Pimpri Chinchwad police commissioner Vinoy Kumar Choubey were present on the occasion. Fadnavis also inaugurated the office of the deputy commissioner of police (zone IV).