The traditional system of crime reporting, (Complaints , Lost found, Information to police & of Criminals) registering, and recognition of crime and filing of First Information Reports (FIR) in a large centrally located state like Madhya Pradesh covering roughly 6000 KM. of rail route and involving 1-1.5 Lac Rail passenger traffic up/down everyday involvs a number of agencies & various rail and Police Authorities on the move during rail journey. FIRs requires initial investigations/efforts at various levels resulting in procedural delay in reporting of cases promptly apart from inconstancy of communication in detection and in decision making due to lack of coordination and correlation in the MIS.
The primary access to data on crime is available only with the unitary sources namely local police stations. These are normally transmitted through the Section to the State Hqrs and Crime Record Bureau (SCRB) who compiles and collates the data in the formats prescribed usually by the National Crime Record Bureau as such is not readily available locally resulting in abnormal delay in ensuring justice .
Data Collection & Management Process: -
Monitoring of crime situation is routinely done by various supervisory formations at the Section and state levels, but much less at the center level, except on occasions, when the Home Ministry convenes meeting more from the law and order point of view than from the crime point of view. This happens to be so, since police is a state subject. At the state level all information is collected and complied in State Crime Record Bureau (SCRB) through Rail Police Hq. and GRP Sections. Director General Of Police and Additional Director General Of Police (Rail) regularly examine and analyze crime situation and give instructions for correctional measures to be carried out by Superintendent Rail Police (SRP) and Station House Officers of GRP Police Stations.
Data And Decision Making: -
Yet adequacy of data is pre-requisite for preventing crime and mitigating its violent impact. The NCRB for example, has reported that crime of theft in the rails have gone up substantially. Appropriate and timely reporting of the crime helps the top authorities to draw necessary actions and policies to control such incidences of crime
Public Interface
How to Report an Offense & to Whom
As per section 154 Cr.P.C. a Police Officer is duty bound to register a cognizable offence when reported by any person. The offence can be reported:-
By submitting in writing the details of offence either personally or through post
By narrating orally to officer in-charge of Police station
By informing through telephone
The offence should be reported to officer incharge of a police station as far as possible but can be reported to MHC. If these officials refuse to register an offence a person can approach Supervisory Officer of police station or Supdt. of Police of the district
Copies of FIR's are given free of cost
Insist on claiming your FIR Copy immediately after registration of a case
A Criminal case (FIR) can be registered only in the event of a cognizable offence
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