INDORE: Indore police are preparing to geotag locations of the houses of habitual criminals. The pilot project has been operational for the past two weeks, in which over 600 houses of repeat offenders and their immediate contacts have been geotagged.
Informed DCP Aditya Mishra, “It has been observed that an offender approaches his family or friends after committing a crime. After analyzing mobile data of such offenders for the past six months, a list of probable contacts has been made and all their houses are being geotagged.”
It has been observed that the criminals are never present at the address registered by them in the CCTNS or the official records.
The geotagging is also acting as a tool for force mobilization based on data. Through the data, the police are able to check the crime frequency in any particular area and spot the vulnerable places on maps easily.
“We have trained three officers in our office who are compiling the data. The police officials on field collate the data using third-party applications and collect the coordinates of the houses where the accused or his family is living and share this with the compilers,” added Mishra.
Police would carry out physical verification of the current address and activity of each offender residing in their jurisdiction, irrespective of whether they have committed crimes in the past in their police station limits. There is going to be special focus on repeat offenders.
He said that this will enable police to keep a continuous surveillance on criminals and monitor their activities by accessing information real time while on field duty.
“If we have to deploy a force in any area, it is not clear when and where it should be deployed on occasions and functions. Through geo tagging, we are able to see the dense areas where the number of accused are more,” explained Mishra. When these tagged dots are expanded, all the details of the offenders are available.
“At first we are trying to collate data of habitual stabbing offenders, druwg peddlers after which it will be expanded further,” he concluded.
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