Nagpur police, Maharashtra law university sign MoU to study crime

NAGPUR: City police and Maharashtra National Law University (MNLU) have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to study pattern and characteristics of violent crimes including murder, attempt to murder and hurt cases for the past 20 years.
During the maiden visit of the state home minister Dilip Walse Patil earlier this year, he had suggested city police to undertake a study to ascertain the reasons behind high incidence of violent crimes in Nagpur.
The study would aim at devising an effective methodology for crime prevention and sprucing up coordination between police, prosecution and prisons, said commissioner of police Amitesh Kumar.
“The crime statistics of the last two decades shall be referred to and in-depth studies of the FIRs from 2016 onwards would be done. Our aim is to find out psychological, social, socio-economical and legal factors behind such crimes,” he said.
“The aim is to find out crime-prone and less vulnerable places in the city by applying cartographic school of criminology (geographical mapping of the crime),” he said.
Kumar said various measures have been undertaken over a period of time in the city to pull back the crime rate. “We would be studying the crime prevention methodologies and ascertain their effectiveness,” he added.