In a bid to curb property-related offences and streamline the return process of recovered stolen goods to the original owners, Commissionerate police are planning to develop two computer applications. Commissioner of Police Saumendra Priyadarshi said an organised crime and property offences cell has been set up at the Bhubaneswar DCP office to prevent robberies, thefts and other property offences.
In addition, two computer applications are being developed to maintain a record of property offenders and stolen items.“In order to curb property offences, we earlier had formed Property Offence Prevention and Detection (POPD) team and C60 team at each police station under the Bhubaneswar urban police district and at DCP level,” Priyadarshi said. He said the teams have done an excellent job and said that properly offences have come down in the past few days. “Huge quantity of stolen goods was recovered and we managed to return those to many rightful owners,” he said. “In order to streamline process, we have taken another initiative today. An organised crime and property offence cell has been set up at DCP office.
In addition, we are trying to develop a computer application Kundali, by integrating data on property offenders. If searched through app, one can get details regarding past crime records of any offender,” Priyadarshi said. The 2nd app, Sandhan, is being developed byCommissionerate police to maintain record of stolen mobile phones and other property, he said.
“Once apps are developed, we can track down crime records of offenders and take stringent action against them besides returning recovered items to the original owners without any hassle,” he added.