Additional Director General of Police SCRB Chanchal Shekhar informed that the trial run of e-FIR was started from August 12 and through which FIRs of vehicle theft and general theft (worth less than Rs 1 lakh) are being done electronically.
A total of 328 e-FIRs have been registered in the trial run till date. In which 77 of automobiles, 39 of electronic items, 21 of jewellery and seven of documents are included.
During this, 107 FIRs were quashed due to duplication, knowing the accused, assault (use of force) in the incident and missing reports.
ADG Shekhar informed that training of all police officers/employees, distribution of mobile phones (on which SMS alerts of e-FIR request will be received) in police stations and soon after integration with RTO for information of vehicles across India. It would go live soon.
He informed that recently "Crime in India" data analysis has been published by NCRB. Information regarding the status of crimes is published by NCRB every year on their website as Crime in India. NCRB has published Crime in India-2020 on September 15. In which the total IPC crime in the state in the year 2020 was 283881, which is in fifth place as compared to other states. In the year 2020, M.P. States with lesser population like Gujarat, Tamil Nadu have more total crime.
He informed that the e-investigation app is being developed soon in collaboration with MapIT and which will be helpful in making the investigation more robust and transparent.