Police constable Dilip Thakore
The Ahemdabad police can now get information about criminals with just a click of a mouse. And this has been made possible by 38-year-old constable Dilip Thakore.
Constable Thakore, part of the cybercrime cell of the Ahmedabad crime branch, has created two computer softwares - Pinac and Eklavya - which help in improving crime detection and tracing lost vehicles.
"Pinac is a comprehensive data base of criminals. Ahmedabad has many police stations and the modus operandi of criminals is that they strike in one police station area and live in other parts so it becomes very difficult to track their movement since records are scattered all over,'' said constable Thakore.
Meanwhile, the Eklavya programme is used to for information about vehicles. "The software provides the constable on the ground real time information about the vehicle and the antecedents of owners. This has has helped us in returning 700 vehicles to owners in the last one year besides improving crime detection by 10 to 15 per cent,'' said Deepan Bhadran Ahmedabad crime branch Deputy Commissioner of Police.
Pinac and Eklavya have also been given a special mention at a conference at National police academy in Hyderabad. The softwares will be demonstrated to senior police officers at a police research institute in Bhopal.
Dilip, a diploma holder in diesel mechanics, had no knowledge about computers when he joined the police department in 1996. His interest in computers was sparked only a year later when computers were installed at the district headquarters. He then undertook several computer courses and over the years has designed atleast a dozen softwares.
The software has been replicated at city and district levels in Ahemdabad. The Gujarat police is hoping for the same to be done at national level.