The SP Gwalior Santosh Kumar Singh held a meeting of the Crime Branch on Saturday. He ordered the officers and employees of the Crime Branch to work for making the department environment professional.
Referring to the orders of the Supreme Court in a writ petition (civil) of Prakash Singh and others V/s union of India and others. He said that a plan has been prepared for separation of the work of investigation in four metro cities in compliance with a letter from the director general of police Bhopal. A proposal to set up Crime Branch police station, has been made in January 2014. In this connection a Crime Branch police station in Gwalior district has been established. In a meeting held in connection with reorganisation of Crime Branch directed that maintenance of record of crimes and criminal has to be made properly.
A watch is to be kept on convicted and under consideration prisoners in Central Jail Gwalior on their visitors and discharge. Apart from that criminals discharged from the jail should be checked to see that they are not re-engaging in any kind of crimes. He said that the targets of the Crime Branch of last year have been completed mostly.
Attention would be paid to the remaining targets and new targets would be given to the Crime Branch in the New Year. They should also be completed in New Year 2014. The small heads of Crime Branch including vehicle theft, loot, dacoity, kidnapping, chain snatching and theft would be reorganised so that the team can develop an intelligence network in a specialised way.
The SP directed the team that attention should be paid to the cause of crime, the source of weapons, participants in the incidents and how the crime is committed. He gave some tips to the team. He said that most of the crimes are committed under the influence alcohol so the sale of illicit liquor should be kept under control.