‘Crime Analysis Wing To Improve Conviction Rate In Odisha’

Bhubaneswar: The Crime Analysis Wing (CAW) of Crime Branch (CB) was inaugurated by additional DGP Manoj Chabra in presence of senior police officers on the eve of 84th State Police Formation Day at CID-CB Conference Hall here.

The wing will provide effective and proper guidance in all aspects of investigation – forensic evidence, cyber and computer forensics, DNA fingerprinting and legal issues – to investigating officers at the initial stage of investigation.

“The quality and crucial intervention in the investigation at the most important stage will go long way in addressing the lacunae observed in the investigation and thereby improve the conviction rate,” Chabra said.

With this system, the CB would be able to closely monitor approximately 1500-2000 most important cases per year apart of existing system of red and orange flag cases, ADGP (Crime) Santosh Upadhyay said in a press statement.

“In future, a digital video wall would be established at the Crime Branch to strengthen the audio visual interaction with the field officers. This step would help the Crime Branch to better deliver its mandate of monitoring SR cases and overall improve the quality of the investigation across the state,” he said.

He further stated that step would be taken for integration of CAW with CCTNS for seamless delivery of instructions.