Rajasthan DGP reviews crime control, modernisation; directs stringent action against repeat offenders

Director General of Police Rajeev Kumar Sharma chaired a marathon review meeting at the Rajasthan Police Headquarters with range-level officers. The six-hour session assessed range-wise progress on crime control, innovation, and modernisation of policing. He directed strict action against hardened criminals, including history-sheeters and habitual offenders, and mandated financial investigations in cases under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, as well as in gang-related and habitual-offender cases. The DGP called for identifying illegal properties of criminals and ensuring attachment, and for the speedy disposal of cases pending for over five years. He emphasized a multi-pronged strategy to curb serious crimes, reinforced the need for the strongest legal action against repeat offenders, and ordered the disposal of seized items lying in police station storerooms through special drives. The meeting highlighted the use of technology, including maximising the RajCop Citizen App, and cautioned against creating separate district-level apps. It urged proper functioning of CCTV cameras at police stations, improvement in detection, challan, and recovery rates, and directed enhancements in traffic management, including expanding the lane driving system and toll plaza awareness campaigns. The DGP also called for upgrading police stations' reception areas with digital facilities, enabling online entry through the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems platform to improve transparency and public service. Additional emphasis was placed on taking strict action against false cases, strengthening the beat system, improving the quality of disposal of complaints on the 181 helpline, and ensuring prompt action in cybercrime cases reported on the 1930 helpline. Senior officers, including DG Sanjay Agarwal, DG Anil Paliwal, and DG Anand Srivastava, were present and contributed suggestions.