Crime White Paper

State of Policing in Mumbai

WHITE PAPER

STATE OF POLICING IN MUMBAI
(April 2008 to March 2012)

December 2012

Supported by

FORD FOUNDATION
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Table of Content

Sr. No. Title Page No.

I Foreword 4

II Overall Status of the City 5

III Area-wise Status of Mumbai 18

III. 1 North Mumbai 18

III. 2 North West Mumbai 20

III. 3 North East Mumbai 22

III. 4 North Central Mumbai 24

III. 5 South Central Mumbai 26

III. 6 South Mumbai 28

Appendix 1– Survey Methodology 30

Table

1 Table 1: How secure do people feel in Mumbai 5

2 Table 2: Occurrences of Crime in Mumbai City 6

Table 3: Cases Investigated for the year -2011(includes cases from 12Police Zones
3 7
and the Port Zone)

4 Table 4: Trial Cases for the year – 2011(includes 12 Police Zones and Port Zone) 9

Table 5: Designation wise number of Police Personnel sanctioned and working (as of
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July 2012)

Table 6: Designation wise number of Police Personnel difference between working
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forces in year 2012 to 2011

7 Table 7: Police Personnel details based on Areas of Mumbai (92 Police Station) 13

8 Table 8: Police Personnel details based on Department (as on 31st July 2012) 13

Table 9: Police Personnel details based on Supervisory level officer (as on 31st July
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2012)

10 Table 10: Specific Crime highest occurrences area wise 15

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11 Table 11: Questions asked by MLAs on Crime issues area-wise 16

12 Table 12: Property of stolen and recovered in the year 2011 17

13 Table 13: Specific Crime highest occurrences (North Mumbai) 18

14 Table 14: Rank wise strength of Police personnel (North Mumbai) 18

15 Table 15: Questions asked by MLAs on Crime issues (North Mumbai) 19

16 Table 16: Specific Crime highest occurrences (North West Mumbai) 20

17 Table 17: Rank wise strength of Police personnel (North West Mumbai) 20

18 Table 18: Questions asked by MLAs on Crime issues (North West Mumbai) 21

19 Table 19: Specific Crime highest occurrences (Nor North East Mumbai) 22

20 Table 20: Rank wise strength of Police personnel (North East Mumbai) 22

21 Table 21: Questions asked by MLAs on Crime issues (North East Mumbai) 23

22 Table 22: Specific Crime highest occurrences (North Central Mumbai) 24

23 Table 23: Rank wise strength of Police personnel (North Central Mumbai) 24

24 Table 24: Questions asked by MLAs on Crime issues (North Central Mumbai) 25

25 Table 25: Specific Crime highest occurrences (South Central Mumbai) 26

26 Table 26: Rank wise strength of Police personnel (South Central Mumbai) 26

27 Table 27: Questions asked by MLAs on Crime issues (South Central Mumbai) 27

28 Table 28: Specific Crime highest occurrences (South Mumbai) 28

29 Table 29: Rank wise strength of Police personnel (South Mumbai) 28

30 Table 30: Questions asked by MLAs on Crime issues (South Mumbai) 29

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I. Foreword

India's police are governed by archaic and colonial police laws harking back to 1861. There has been almost 30
years of debate on policing and reform in India, with commission after commission submitting reports and
recommendations to governments. Each report has gone unimplemented. At the end of 2006, there was a
shift in the reform process, with a Supreme Court decision that required Indian governments to ensure police
accountability and the release of a draft Model Police Act by a national Police Act Drafting Committee.

Our latest White Paper on the state of crime raises several crucial issues that need to be debated and
deliberated upon to bring about significant policy changes to prevent the ever deteriorating law and order
situation in the city of Mumbai. Our papers are full of news about grisly crimes committed against senior
citizens. Well, punishment is the biggest deterrent to serious crimes. And in our democratic processes,
punishment is solely dependent upon framing of charges, investigation, trial and then conviction.

This is where the state and the police need a serious rethink. As our data shows, while law and order situation
has remained more or less at the same level for the past couple of years, investigation, solving of crime, trial
and conviction for heinous crimes still leave a lot to be desired. The general trend over the last four years is
that crime rate has more or less stabilised in the city at the current level. However, certain specific crimes
such as Rape, Molestation, Accidents and Vehicle Stolen are growing consistently. In fact road accidents have
almost doubling over the past few years.

Of the total 71,425 cases filed in Mumbai during 2011-12, 18% (a total of 12,762) cases are related to serious
offences. Of this only 45% (a total of 5,772) cases were sent for trial. The rest are pending investigation. And
those that went for trial, only 10 per cent got a conviction worth its crime. It is indeed shocking to learn that
of the (1,61,528) cases gone into trial, the acquittal rate was a shocking 83 per cent!

This clearly means that Mumbai Police needs to augment its investigative prowess. For, strong investigation
alone would send cases to trial stages; build watertight prosecution cases and higher conviction. One of the
remedial measures could be to separate investigation of crime from regular law and order duties. Let the
investigation wing in each police station not be bogged down by bandobast and nakabandi duties.

According to experts, this does not even require a legislative intervention. Even the Office of the Police
Commissioner or the Home Minister of the state has the power to introduce this much-needed change in the
policing policy of the city, and perhaps the state as well. Of course this will call for several other reforms like
better training facilities, improvement in quality of police personnel by having a higher educational
qualifications at entry level and many other reforms as directed by the Supreme Court. But most of all, this
White Paper should be a clarion call for the state to wake up and seriously consider an overhaul of its archaic
policing policies that have made over 34% of Mumbaikars feel unsafe, as our survey indicates.

NITAI MEHTA,
Founder Trustee, Praja Foundation

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II. Overall Status of the City

Table 1: How secure do people feel in Mumbai

Percentage of Respondents1 who feel unsafe in Mumbai
How secure do the How secure do the
people feel about people feel while
women, children and travelling from one
How secure do the senior citizens are in place to another
Area 2of Mumbai people feel in Mumbai one's locality within the city
North Mumbai 32.9% 32.0% 35.5%
North West Mumbai 29.5% 36.0% 35.2%
North East Mumbai 30.1% 33.0% 34.5%
North Central Mumbai 31.3% 35.0% 37.1%
South Central Mumbai 32.4% 35.0% 35.6%
South Mumbai 29.7% 36.0% 37.9%

Inference:

As one can see that across the city the feeling of insecurity is equal. Of those surveyed overall 34% feel
unsafe.

Residents of North Mumbai, North Central Mumbai and South Central Mumbai perceive that the city as most
unsafe.

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Data based on Household survey of 15,191 respondents across the city of Mumbai. Kindly refer to appendix one for
more details on the survey methodology.
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North Mumbai includes: Borivali, Dahisar, Malad West; North West Mumbai includes: Jogeshwari, Goregaon, Andheri;
North East Mumbai includes: Mulund, Ghatkopar, Shivaji Nagar; North Central Mumbai includes: VileParle, Kurla, Bandra;
South Central Mumbai includes: Chembur, Sion, Koliwada, Mahim; and South Mumbai includes: Worli, Byculla, Colaba,
Malabar Hill.
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Table 2: Occurrences of Crime in Mumbai City

% Increase % Increase % Increase
2008-09 to 2009-10 to 2010-11 to
Specific Crime 2008-093 2009-10 2009-10 2010-11 2010-11 2011-12 2011-12
Murder 211 240 14% 240 0 220 -8%
Rape 193 171 -11% 180 5% 207 15%
Molestation 413 384 -7% 483 26% 552 14%
Riot 280 384 37% 385 0% 365 -5%
House Breaking
(Day/Night) 2731 3047 12% 3386 11% 2813 -17%
Chain Snatching 1575 1712 9% 2134 25% 1775 -17%
Thefts4 6378 6697 5% 6495 -3% 6271 -3%
Accident/Fatal
Accidents 1437 2080 45% 2583 24% 2867 11%
Vehicles Stolen 4245 4436 4% 4339 -2% 4833 11%

Inference:

The above data represent occurrence of crime in Mumbai from April 2008 to March 2012.

The general trend over the last four years is that crime rate has more or less stabilised in the city at the
current level. While, certain nature of crime such as Rape, Molestation, Accidents and Vehicle Stolen is
growing consistently and this is major concern. This also reflects in the survey when 39.4% of the
citizens perceive that they are unsafe.

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The period taken into account is a financial year e.g. April 2008 to March 2009 and so on.
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Theft including Theft by Servant/Locked Place/Theft at opens Place/Theft from motor vehicle/Vehicle Parts/Mobile
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Table 3: Cases Investigated for the year -2011(includes cases from 12Police Zones and the Port Zone)

Cases Investigated for the year -20115
Final
Classified Cases sent-
Pending Cases Not reports sent Pending
final as up in
Investigation Reported in investigated/ (Statement Investigation
(Statement) 2011(Charge
from 2010 2011 Refused A) as of Dec’11
B/C6 sheet)

Part I - I.PC. Act.
CLASS - I SERIOUS OFFENCES (Case including rioting unlawful assembly, offences relating to coin, stamps,
currency etc.)
1269 1072 0 13 112 1024 1192
CLASS - II SERIOUS OFFENCES (Case including Murder, Rape, Grievous Hurt, Kidnapping, Abduction etc.)
5625 7137 0 87 656 5772 6247
CLASS - III SERIOUS OFFENCES (Case including Robbery, Killing poisoning or maiming any animal, Extortion,
Dacoity etc.)
3554 3139 0 204 1400 1592 3497
CLASS - IV (Case including Hurt or endangering life, Criminal Intimidation, Wrongful restraint and confinement)

1380 1276 0 13 310 717 1616
CLASS-V MINOR OFFNCES (Case including Criminal Breach of Trust, Stolen Property, Cheating, Breaking Closed
receptacle etc.)
15696 13224 0 948 6936 4969 16067
CLASS - VI OTHER OFFENCES (Public nuisance, Insult the modesty of a woman etc.)
460 430 0 1 22 398 469
OTHER I.P.C.
4365 3048 1 43 436 2401 4532
304-B and 498-A (Dowry deaths, Harassments to married women etc.)
317 361 1 2 6 319 350
PART - II Cognizable offences under local & special Laws (Arms Act., Indian Railway Act., Gambling Act.,
Prevention of Corruption Act. etc.)
4803 4269 1 2 42 3588 5439
Total
37469 33956 3 1313 9920 20780 39409

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Annual Administrative Reports pertain to calendar year for the period from January to December.
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After a FIR is registered and investigation completed either in the case a charge sheet is filled and the case is sent to the
courts for trials (Cases Sent-up) or the case is classified as Statement A (mentioned above as ‘Final Reports Sent’ meaning
cases in which charge sheet was not filled but investigation completed. In colloquial police vocabulary Statement A is also
known as ‘Case True but not Detected’) or the case is classified as B/C (meaning Cases declared false or mistake of fact or
law).
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Note:

Statement A mentioned in the table 3 as ‘Final Reports Sent’ means cases in which charge sheet was not
filled but investigation completed. In colloquial police vocabulary Statement A is also known as ‘Case True
but not Detected’.
Statement B/C means cases declared false or mistake of fact or law.

Inference:

A total of 71,425 cases were investigated in the calendar year 2011.Of which investigation was completed in
32,016 cases. Of this 32,016 cases,31% of the (a total of 9,920) cases were found to be true but were not
detected; and 65% (a total 20,780) cases were sent up for trials.

While, investigation in 55% of the (a total of 39,409) cases registered in 2011 or that may have been registered
prior to 2011 is yet pending completion of investigation.

Of the total (71,425) cases, 18% (a total of 12,762) cases are related to Class II (Serious Offences).Of the above
classification of crime, Class II (Serious Offences) is the most crucial:

A total of 12,762 cases were investigated in the calendar year 2011.Of which investigation was completed on
6,515 cases in 2011.Of this 6,515 cases, 10% of the (a total of 656) cases were found to be true but were not
detected; and 87% (a total 5,772) cases were sent up for trials.

While, investigation in 49% of the (a total of 12,762) cases registered in 2011 or that may have been registered
prior to 2011 is yet pending completion of investigation i.e. in 6,247 cases.

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Table 4: Trial Cases for the year – 2011(includes 12 Police Zones and Port Zone)

Trial Cases for the year – 20117

Pending Trial Cases sent-up Pending Trial as
Compounded Withdrawn Acquitted Convicted
from 2010 in 2011 of Dec’11

Part I - I.PC. Act.

CLASS - I SERIOUS OFFENCES en (Case including rioting unlawful assembly, offences relating to coin, stamps,
currency etc.)
5546 1024 14 1 173 22 6360
CLASS - II SERIOUS OFFENCES (Case including Murder, Rape, Grievous Hurt, Kidnapping, Abduction etc.)

39105 5769 305 82 2553 335 41599
CLASS - III SERIOUS OFFENCES (Case including Robbery, Killing poisoning or maiming any animal, Extortion,
Dacoity etc.)
8657 1585 7 13 412 262 9548
CLASS - IV (Case including Hurt or endangering life, Criminal Intimidation, Wrongful restraint and confinement)

6540 715 23 22 719 40 6451
CLASS-V MINOR OFFNCES (Case including Criminal Breach of Trust, Stolen Property, Cheating, Breaking Closed
receptacle etc.)
28940 4959 61 33 1145 662 31998
CLASS - VI OTHER OFFENCES (Public nuisance, Insult the modesty of a woman etc.)
1477 398 7 55 71 36 1706
OTHER I.P.C.
21750 2405 319 30 1701 210 21895
304-B and 498-A (Dowry deaths, Harassments to married women etc.)
2081 319 31 3 218 8 2140
PART - II Cognizable offences under local & special Laws (Arms Act., Indian Railway Act., Gambling Act.,
Prevention of Corruption Act. etc.)
26707 3551 108 396 1712 507 27535
Total
140803 20725 875 635 8704 2082 149232

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Annual Administrative Reports pertain to calendar year for the period of January to December 2011.
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Inference:

A total of 161,528 cases were tried in the courts in the calendar year 2011. Of which trial was completed in 8%
(a total of 12,296) cases and judgement was given. Of this 12,296 cases in which judgement was given,17% of
the (a total of 2,082) cases were convicted (here the judgement for the case is considered and not for
individual persons who are accused e.g. if there are three accused in the particular case and only one gets
convicted then the entire case is treated as convicted, only when all three are acquitted then only the case is
considered as acquitted for the above statistics); while the rest i.e. 83% (a total of 10,214) cases were
acquitted.

While, 92% of the (a total of 1,49,232) cases sent for trials in 2011 or prior to 2011 are yet pending
judgements.

Of the total (161,528) cases, 28% (a total of 44,874) cases are related to Class II (Serious Offences).Of the
above classification of crime, Class II (Serious Offences) is the most crucial:

A total of 44,874 cases were tried in the courts in the calendar year 2011.Of which trial was completed in 7%
(a total of 3,275) cases and judgement was given. Of this3,275 cases in which judgement was given, only 10%
of the (a total of 335) cases were convicted; while the rest i.e. 90%(a total of 3,275) cases were acquitted.

While, 93% of the (a total of 41,599) cases sent for trials in 2011 or prior to 2011 are yet pending judgements.

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Table 5: Designation wise number of Police Personnel sanctioned and working (as of July 2012)

Actual Difference
Difference b/w
Sr.
Designation Sanctioned Working b/w sanctioned
No.
sanctioned and working
and working in %
1 Commissioner of Police (C.P.) 1 1 0 0
Joint Commissioner of Police (Jt.
2 C.P.) 4 4 0 0
Additional Commissioner of Police
3 (Addl. C.P.) 11 11 0 0
Deputy Commissioner of Police
4 (D.C.P.) 39 30 -9 -23%
Assistant Commissioner of Police
5 (A.C.P.) 130 95 -35 -27%
6 Police Inspector (P.I.) 978 911 -67 -7%
7 Assistant Police Inspector (A.P.I.) 1002 787 -215 -21%
8 Police Sub - Inspector (P.S.I.) 3125 1243 -1882 -60%
Assistant Police Sub-Inspector
9 (A.S.I) 3001 2675 -326 -11%
10 Head Constable (H.C.) 7067 6874 -193 -3%
11 Police Naik (P.N.) 6809 6721 -88 -1%
12 Police Constable (P.C.) 19234 14646 -4588 -24%
Total Police Force 41401 33998 -7403 -18%

Inferences:
The above data represents designation-wise number of police personnel sanctioned, (actually) working and
difference between sanction and working.

What is most alarming is the gap in the number of sanctioned & working Police Sub - Inspector (PSI) and
sanctioned & working Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP).The gap for PSI is 60%, while for ACP is 27%.

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Table 6: Designation wise number of Police Personnel difference between working forces in year 2012 to
2011

Difference
between
Working Working
Sr. No. Designation Sanctioned working
in 2012 in 2011
forces in
2012 & 2011

1 Commissioner of Police (C.P.) 1 1 1 0
2 Joint Commissioner of Police (Jt. C.P.) 4 4 4 0
Additional Commissioner of Police
3 11 11 10 1
(Addl. C.P.)
4 Deputy Commissioner of Police (D.C.P.) 39 30 33 -3
Assistant Commissioner of Police
5 130 95 120 -25
(A.C.P.)
6 Police Inspector (P.I.) 978 911 928 -17
7 Assistant Police Inspector (A.P.I.) 1002 787 674 113
8 Police Sub - Inspector (P.S.I.) 3125 1243 1491 -248
9 Assistant Police Sub-Inspector (A.S.I) 3001 2675 2726 -51
10 Head Constable (H.C.) 7067 6874 6626 248
11 Police Naik (P.N.) 6809 6721 6720 1
12 Police Constable (P.C.) 19234 14646 14083 563
Total Police Force 41401 33998 33416 582

Inferences:
The data shows that currently Mumbai has sanctioned 41,401 police personnel however only 33,998 police
personnel are working (difference of 7,403), a gap of 18%.

The number of PSIs available in 2011 has decreased from 1491 to 1243 in 2012, a decrease of 248 officers;
while at the API level there is an increase of 113 officers; at the constabulary level, the number of police
constables has increased by 563 officers; also the Head Constable count has increased by 248 officers. Overall
there is an increase in the police force of 582 officers.

It may be inferred from the above data that although there seems to be an increase of 582 officers, the high
shortfall remains and particularly at the more critical PSI level. The increases or decreases internally at the
designation level suggest that promotions which may have been not given earlier were approved and given in
the above period (in 2012).

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Table 7: Police Personnel details based on Areas of Mumbai (92 Police Station)

%
Difference %
difference Difference
difference
Police between between
No. of Police between between
Sr. Area of Personnel Sanctioned Sanctioned
Police Personnel Sanctioned and
Sanctioned
No. Mumbai Working and and
Station Sanctioned and Working
(July’12) Working Working
Working (Nov’11)
(July’12) (Nov’11)
(July’12)
1 North Mumbai 13 2793 2472 -321 -11% -198 -7%
North West
2 14 2988 2540 -448 -15% -230 -8%
Mumbai
North East
3 11 2431 2213 -218 -9% -139 -6%
Mumbai
North Central
4 13 2905 2436 -469 -16% -436 -15%
Mumbai
South Central
5 15 3249 3029 -220 -7% -312 -10%
Mumbai
6 South Mumbai 26 7024 5352 -1672 -24% -1650 -23%
Total 92 21390 18042 -3348 -16% -2965 -14%

Table 8: Police Personnel details based on Department (as on 31st July 2012)

%
Difference %
difference Difference
difference
Sr. Personnel Sanctioned Sanctioned
Department Personnel Sanctioned and
Sanctioned
No. Working and and
Sanctioned and Working
(July ’12) Working Working
Working (Nov’11)
(July ’12) (Nov’11)
(July ’12)
1 Special Branch (I - CID) 952 814 -138 -14% -108 -11%
Special Branch (II -
2 320 295 -25 -8% -117 -37%
Passport)
3 Crime Branch 1525 1253 -272 -18% -256 -17%
4 Protection and Security 1478 1442 -36 -2% -55 -4%

5 Armed Police 11308 8251 -3057 -27% -2634 -23%

6 Anti-Terrorist Squad 171 186 15 9% 25 15%

7 Wireless Section 447 346 -101 -23% -93 -21%

8 Traffic 3353 3101 -252 -8% -1633 -49%

9 Control Room 272 127 -145 -53% -132 -49%

Total 19826 15815 -4011 -20% -5003 -25%

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Table 9: Police Personnel details based on Supervisory level officer (as on 31st July 2012)

%
Difference % difference Difference
difference
Police between
Police between between between
Supervisory level Personnel Sanctioned
Personnel Sanctioned Sanctioned and
Sanctioned
officer Working and
Sanctioned and Working and Working Working
(July’12) Working
(July’12) (July’12) (Nov’11)
(Nov’11)

C.P., Jt. C.P., Addl. C.P.,
185 141 -44 -24% -17 -9%
D.C.P. and A.C.P.

Inferences:

The above data represent details of Police personnel within different areas of Mumbai in the police stations
situated over there, at various Departments of Police and composition of the Supervisory Level Officers. The
data includes number of police personnel sanctioned, (actually) working and the difference between
sanctioned and working.

We have a shortage of 3348 officers in the 92 police stations (excluding the cyber police station), a gap of 16%.

Control Room is short by 145 officers (again a gap of 53%) and the police force in the Armed Police is short
staffed by 3057 officers (gap of 27%).

The shortage in the Traffic Police has come down from 49% in 2011 to 8% in 2012 – this is a welcome step as
this can have significant impact on the increasing number of accidents in the city. However, the shortage in the
Control Room is still very high at 49%, this department is particularly critical as the emergency number (100) is
handled by officers in this department. Also the increase in shortage at the supervisory level officers to 24%,
mainly because of decrease in the number of ACPs (please refer tables 5 & 6), is not a good sign.

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Table 10: Specific Crime highest occurrences area wise

Crime 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12
Area8 of Occurr Area of Occurr Area of Occurr Area of Occur
Mumbai ence Mumbai ence Mumbai ence Mumbai rence

Murder SM 43 SM 47 SCM 60 SCM 45
Rape NCM 43 SCM 33 SM 40 NCM 41
Riot NCM 72 NCM 77 NCM 85 SCM, SM 73
House Breaking
NCM 552 NCM 618 NCM 694 NCM 565
(Day/Night)
Chain Snatching NM 388 NCM 387 NCM 526 SCM 399
Thefts SM 1,491 SM 1441 NWM 1359 SM 1398
Accident / Fatal
NCM 333 NCM 543 NCM 654 NCM 567
Accident
Vehicles Stolen NCM 914 NCM 944 NCM 900 NCM 991

Inferences:

The above data represents year-wise highest occurrences of specific crime in a particular area of Mumbai from
April 2008 to March 2012.

The registered Rape, House Breaking, Accident and Vehicles Stolen cases have been the highest in North
Central Mumbai region; while, Murder, Riot and Chain Snatching is highest by South Central Mumbai in the
year 2011-12.

Overall, North Central Mumbai has highest occurrences of crime in the year 2011-12 (6,736 cases).

It can be observed that across the years and across the specific crimes mentioned in the above table, North
Central Mumbai has had the highest number of registered crime.

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SM – South Mumbai (Worli, Byculla,Colaba, Malabar Hill), SCM – South Central Mumbai (Chembur, SionKoliwada,
Mahim), NCM – North Central Mumbai (Vile Parle,Kurla,Bandra)NWM – North West Mumbai (Jogeshwari, Goregaon,
Andheri),NM – North Mumbai (Borivali, Dahisar, Malad West), NEM – North East Mumbai (Mulund, Ghatkopar, Shivaji
Nagar)
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Table 11: Questions asked by MLAs on Crime issues area-wise

Total
Total
No. of occurrence of
questions
Sr.No. Area of Mumbai Police MLAs crime from
asked in
Stations April 2011 to
Crime
March 2012
Gopal Shetty, Vinod
Ghosalkar, Pravin Darekar,
1 North Mumbai 13 349 4803
Ramesh Thakur, Yogesh
Sagar, Aslam Shaikh
Ravindra Waikar, Rajhans
2 North West Mumbai 14 Singh, Subhash Desai, Baldev 239 5325
Khosa, Ashok Jadhav
Sardar Tara Singh, Mangesh
Sangle, Shishir Shinde,
3 North East Mumbai 11 440 4310
Ramchandra Kadam, Prakash
Maheta, Abu Azmi
Krishnakumar Hegde, Milind
Kamble, Prakash Sawant,
4 North Central Mumbai 13 65 6736
Baba Sidikki, Kripashankar
Singh
Nawab Malik, Chandrakant
Handore, Jagannath Shetty,
5 South Central Mumbai 15 93 5788
Kalidas Kolambkar, Nitin
Sardesai
Bala Nandgaonkar,
Madhukar Chavan, Mangal
6 South Mumbai 26 329 6368
Prabhat Lodha, Amin Patel,
Annie Shekhar
Note: 1) Questions Asked by MLAs only during the following sessions have been included: Monsoon 2011,
Winter 2011 and Budget 2012
2) Sachin Ahir, Varsha Gaikwad, Arif Naseem Khan and Suresh Shetty are ministers hence there are no
questions asked by them

Inferences:

The above data represents questions asked by MLAs on crime and police personnel/infrastructure.

North Central Mumbai has highest occurrences of crime (6,736 cases); while the MLAs representing this
area have asked the lowest no. of (65) questions on crime from April 2011 to March 2012.

MLAs from North East Mumbai have asked the highest no. of questions (440) and occurrences of crime in
these areas also the lowest (4,310cases) from April 2011 to March 2012.

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Table 12: Property recovered and stolen in the year 2011

% of cases
in which
% of value
No. of No. of Cases Property
Amount of Amount of of property
cases in in which was
Sr. Property Property recovered
Offences which Property recovered
No. Stolen recovered to value of
property was to cases in
(in Lakh) (in Lakh) property
was stolen recovered which
stolen
Property
was stolen
1 Theft 15,745 5,338 34% 26,608 6,056 23%
2 Dacoity 30 26 87% 256 107 42%
Robbery 441 358 81% 919 361 39%
Criminal Breach
3 485 218 45% 23,848 1,281 5%
of Trust
Criminal Breach
of Trust by
public servant
4 4 2 50% 53 0 0
or by a banker,
merchant or
agent

Possession of
5 stolen property 23 23 100% 10 10 100%
124 - XXII -1951

Criminal Miss-
6 975 344 35% 21,258 300 1%
appropriation
TOTAL 17,703 6,309 36% 72,952 8,115 11%

Inference:

The above table shows the details of property that was stolen and recovered according to the nature of crime
i.e. by theft, dacoity, etc. This is the first time that Praja has collected this data and we intend to track it every
year to understand the trend particularly in recovery of the property. One of the trends that emerge from the
above table is of the ‘Criminal Breach of Trust’ and ‘Criminal Miss- appropriation’ includes 62% of the total
value of the property stolen and has the least recovery rate i.e. 5% and 1% respectively.

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III. Area-wise Status of Mumbai

III. 1.North Mumbai

Table 13: Specific Crime highest occurrences (North Mumbai)

Specific Crime 2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011 2011-2012
Murder 32 38 31 39
Rape 28 26 27 37
Riot 38 43 40 38
House Breaking (Day/Night) 377 414 446 406
Chain Snatching 388 299 316 282
Vehicles Stolen 662 657 553 777

Inferences:

There is a continuous increase throughout and is more alarming in cases of Murder (39), Rape (37) and
Vehicles Stolen (777) in year April 2011 to March 2012.

Table 14: Rank wise strength of Police personnel (North Mumbai)

Actual Difference
Sr. No. Rank Sanctioned Working Difference in %
1 Police Inspector (P.I.) 65 65 0 0%
4 Assistant Police Sub-Inspector (A.S.I) 237 185 -52 -22%
5 Head Constable (H.C.) 520 540 20 4%
6 Police Naik (P.N.) 569 613 44 8%
Total 2793 2472 -321 -11%

Inferences:

The data shows that Police Sub - Inspector (PSI) strength is short by 130 officers (gap of 52%) and the police
force in the Assistant Police Sub-Inspector (ASI) is short staffed by 52 officers (gap of 22%).

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Table 15: Questions asked by MLAs on Crime issues (North Mumbai)

Sr. Question asked on crime Gopal Vinod Pravin Ramesh Yogesh Aslam
No. issues Shetty Ghosalkar Darekar Thakur Sagar Shaikh Total
1 Murder 6 9 4 1 1 21
2 Rape 0
3 Rioting 3 2 5
4 House Breaking 0
5 Chain Snatching 1 2 3
6 Theft 1 1
7 Accident 6 8 5 3 2 24
8 Crime Against Child 2 1 6 3 2 2 16
9 Crime Against Women 4 4 6 2 4 20
10 Scams/Corruption 1 3 5 1 1 2 13
11 Terrorism related 2 3 5 1 5 16
12 Drugs 1 6 1 8
13 Extortion/Kidnapping/Threat 1 1 2
14 Human Rights 1 1
15 Suicide 0
Wrong Conduct/Action by
16 Police 8 3 2 13
17 Other Crime related 21 44 50 13 25 11 164
18 Police and Establishment 5 12 15 2 4 4 42
Total 35 92 117 34 49 22 349

Inferences:

The above table shows that total question asked in North Mumbai region by the 6 MLAs on the issues of Crime
is 349 in last three sessions (Monsoon’11, Winter’11 and Budget’12). The maximum question asked is by
Pravin Darekar that is 117.The issue raised most is ‘Police and Establishment’; 42 questions were asked on it.
We can see that Accident, Murder and Crime against Women are few major concern of the North Mumbai
region MLAs.

Not a single question was asked on Chain snatching, Rape, House Breaking and Suicide by the MLAs.

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III. 2. North West Mumbai

Table 16: Specific Crime highest occurrences (North West Mumbai)

Specific Crime 2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011 2011-2012
Murder 30 35 30 28
Rape 27 32 35 31
Riot 34 49 82 43

Table 17: Rank wise strength of Police personnel (North West Mumbai)

Actual Difference
6 Police Naik (P.N.) 608 600 -8 -1%
Total 2988 2540 -448 -15%

Inferences:

force in the Police Constable (PC) is short staffed by 288 officers (gap of 25%).

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Table 18: Questions asked by MLAs on Crime issues (North West Mumbai)

Sr. Ravindra Rajhans Subhash Baldev Ashok
No. Question asked on crime issues Waikar Singh Desai Khosa Jadhav Total
1 Murder 4 7 11
2 Rape 0
3 Rioting 3 3 6
4 House Breaking 0
5 Chain Snatching 1 1
6 Theft 1 1
7 Accident 6 8 1 15
8 Crime Against Child 1 1 2
9 Crime Against Women 6 1 4 2 13
10 Scams/Corruption 4 1 3 8
11 Terrorism related 5 5 10
12 Drugs 2 1 3
13 Extortion/Kidnapping/Threat 1 1
14 Human Rights 0
15 Suicide 1 1
16 Wrong Conduct/Action by Police 5 9 1 15
17 Other Crime related 56 6 49 4 115
18 Police and Establishment 19 16 2 37
Total 115 7 104 0 13 239

Inferences:

The Above table shows that total question asked in North West Mumbai region by the 5 MLAs on the issues of
Crime is 239 in last three sessions (Monsoon’11, Winter’11 and Budget’12).Baldev Khosa has not asked a
single question on crime issue in the last three sessions. The maximum question asked is by Ravindra Waikar
that is 115. The issue raised most is ‘Police and Establishment’; 37 questions were asked on it. We can see that
Accident, Crime against Women and Wrong Conduct/Action by Police are few major concern of the North
West Mumbai region MLAs.

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III. 3. North East Mumbai

Table 19: Specific Crime highest occurrences (North East Mumbai)

Specific Crime 2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011 2011-2012
Murder 28 36 43 29
Rape 27 20 25 22
Riot 41 76 67 69

Table 20: Rank wise strength of Police personnel (North East Mumbai)

Actual Difference
1 Police Inspector (P.I.) 55 54 -1 -2%
6 Police Naik (P.N.) 490 492 2 0%
Total 2431 2213 -218 -9%

Inferences:


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Table 21: Questions asked by MLAs on Crime issues (North East Mumbai)

Sardar Ramch
Sr. Question asked on crime Tara Mangesh Shishir andra Prakash Abu
No. issues Singh Sangle Shinde Kadam Maheta Azmi Total
1 Murder 3 10 5 7 25
2 Rape 0
3 Rioting 2 2 2 6
4 House Breaking 1 1 1 3
5 Chain Snatching 1 1 1 3
6 Theft 2 2
7 Accident 5 15 7 7 34
8 Crime Against Child 2 6 2 4 1 15
9 Crime Against Women 7 10 3 8 1 29
10 Scams/Corruption 1 23 4 3 1 32
11 Terrorism related 8 8 3 2 1 1 23
12 Drugs 3 5 3 2 13
13 Extortion/Kidnapping/Threat 1 2 3
14 Human Rights 1 1
15 Suicide 1 1 2
16 Police 2 4 3 4 2 15
17 Other Crime related 26 72 31 35 11 8 183

18 Police and Establishment 4 23 11 11 2 51
Total 63 182 80 87 14 14 440

Inferences:

The Above table shows that total question asked in North East Mumbai region by the 6 MLAs on the issues of
Crime is 440 in last three sessions (Monsoon’11, Winter’11 and Budget’12). The maximum question asked is
by Mangesh Sangle that is 182. The issue raised most is ‘Police and Establishment’; 51 questions were asked
on it. We can see that Accident, Scams/Corruption and Crime against Women are few major concerns of the
North East Region MLAs.

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III. 4. North Central Mumbai

Table 22: Specific Crime highest occurrences (North Central Mumbai)

Specific Crime 2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011 2011-2012
Murder 38 38 44 39
Rape 43 32 28 41
Riot 72 77 85 69

Table 23: Rank wise strength of Police personnel (North Central Mumbai)

Actual Difference
1 Police Inspector (P.I.) 65 65 0 0
6 Police Naik (P.N.) 589 515 -74 -13%
Total 2905 2436 -469 -16%

Inferences:


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Table 24: Questions asked by MLAs on Crime issues (North Central Mumbai)

Krishna
Sr. kumar Milind Prakash Baba Kripashankar
No. Question asked on crime issues Hegde Kamble Sawant Sidikki Singh Total
1 Murder 1 1 2
2 Rape 0
3 Rioting 1 1
4 House Breaking 0
5 Chain Snatching 1 1
6 Theft 0
7 Accident 2 3 1 6
8 Crime Against Child 2 2
9 Crime Against Women 2 3 5
11 Terrorism related 1 1
12 Drugs 1 1
13 Extortion/Kidnapping/Threat 0
14 Human Rights 0
15 Suicide 0
16 Wrong Conduct/Action by Police 2 2
17 Other Crime related 3 22 2 27
18 Police and Establishment 1 10 2 1 14
Total 10 0 47 6 2 65

Inferences:

The Above table shows that total question asked in North Central Mumbai region by the 5 MLAs on the issues
of Crime is 65 in last three sessions (Monsoon’11, Winter’11 and Budget’12). Milind Kamble has not asked a
single question and Kripashankar Singh has asked only two questions on crime issue in the last three sessions.
The maximum question asked is by Prakash Sawant that is 47. The issue raised most is ‘Police and
Establishment’; 14 questions were asked on it.

By far it can be said with even a cursory look at the crime data, that North Central Mumbai is the hotbed of
criminal activities with the maximum cases of crime in the year 2011-12 (6,736 cases) and MLAs of this region
have asked lowest (65) questions on crime issues from April 2011 to March 2012.

Rape, House Breaking, Accident and Vehicles Stolen cases have been the highest registered in North Central
Mumbai region and MLAs from this region have not asked a single question on Rape, House Breaking and
Vehicles Stolen in the last three sessions.

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III. 5. South Central Mumbai

Table 25: Specific Crime highest occurrences (South Central Mumbai)

Specific Crime 2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011 2011-2012
Murder 40 46 60 45
Rape 35 33 25 37
Riot 34 65 58 73

Inferences:

There is a continuous increase throughout and is more alarming in cases of Riot (73) and Vehicles Stolen (791)
in year April 2011 to March 2012.

Table 26: Rank wise strength of Police personnel (South Central Mumbai)

Actual Difference
1 Police Inspector (P.I.) 75 75 0 0
6 Police Naik (P.N.) 707 620 -87 -12%
Total 3249 3029 -220 -7%

Inferences:

force in the Assistant Police Inspector (API) is short staffed by 41 officers (gap of 38%).

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Table 27: Questions asked by MLAs on Crime issues (South Central Mumbai)

Sr. Question asked on crime Nawab Chandrakant Jagannath Kalidas Nitin
no. issues Malik Handore Shetty Kolambkar Sardesai Total
1 Murder 1 1 4 6
2 Rape 0
3 Rioting 1 1
4 House Breaking 0
5 Chain Snatching 1 2 3
6 Theft 0
7 Accident 1 3 5 9
8 Crime Against Child 1 2 1 2 6
9 Crime Against Women 1 2 2 5
11 Terrorism related 2 2
12 Drugs 0
14 Human Rights 1 1
15 Suicide 1 1
16 Police 0
17 Other Crime related 10 4 22 36
18 Police and Establishment 4 2 12 18
Total 1 1 21 15 55 93

Inferences:

The Above table shows that total question asked in South Central Mumbai region by the 5 MLAs on the issues
of Crime is 93 in last three sessions (Monsoon’11, Winter’11 and Budget’12). Nawab Malik and Chandrakant
Handore have asked only one question on crime issue in the last three sessions. The maximum question asked
is by Nitin Sardesai that is 55.The issue raised most is ‘Police and Establishment’; 18 questions were asked on
it.

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III. 6. South Mumbai

Table 28: Specific Crime highest occurrences (South Mumbai)

Specific Crime 2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011 2011-2012
Murder 43 47 32 40
Rape 33 28 40 39
Riot 61 74 53 73

Inferences:

There is a continuous increase throughout and is more alarming in cases of Murder (40), Riot (73), Chain
Snatching (307) and Vehicles Stolen (950) in year April 2011 to March 2012.

Table 29: Rank wise strength of Police personnel (South Mumbai)

Actual Difference
6 Police Naik (P.N.) 1499 1073 -426 -28%
Total 7024 5352 -1672 -24%

Inferences:

force in the Assistant Police Inspector (API) is short staffed by 56 officers (gap of 32%).

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Table 30: Questions asked by MLAs on Crime issues (South Mumbai)

Sr. Mangal
no Bala Madhukar Prabhat Amin Annie
. Question asked on crime issues Nandgaonkar Chavan Lodha Patel Shekhar Total
1 Murder 9 1 3 3 16
2 Rape 1 1 2
3 Rioting 2 2
4 House Breaking 1 1
5 Chain Snatching 1 1 1 3
6 Theft 3 1 4
7 Accident 15 3 4 4 26
8 Crime Against Child 9 3 4 16
9 Crime Against Women 9 3 3 3 18
10 Scams/Corruption 24 4 28
11 Terrorism related 10 8 18
12 Drugs 6 2 8
14 Human Rights 0
15 Suicide 2 2
16 Wrong Conduct/Action by Police 10 2 2 14
17 Other Crime related 83 9 16 16 2 126
18 Police and Establishment 27 2 5 8 2 44
Total 210 24 44 47 4 329

Inferences:

The Above table shows that total question asked in South Mumbai region by the 5 MLAs on the issues of
Crime is 329 in last three sessions (Monsoon’11, Winter’11 and Budget’12). The maximum question asked is
by Bala Nandgaonkar that is 210. The issue raised most is ‘Police and Establishment’, 44 questions were asked
on it. We can see that Accident, Scams/Corruption and Crime against women are few major concerns of the
South Mumbai Region MLAs.

South Mumbai has Second highest occurrences of crime (6,368 cases). MLAs of this region have asked (329)
questions on crime from April 2011 to March 2012. While there have been highest 1398 cases of theft and Riot
73 cases registered in this region during 2011-12.

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Appendix 1– Survey Methodology

Praja Foundation had commissioned the household survey to Hansa Research and the survey methodology
followed is as below:

In order to meet the desired objectives of the study, we represented the city by covering a sample from
each of its 227 wards. Target Group for the study was :

 Both Males & Females
 18 years and above
 Belonging to that particular ward.
Sample quotas were set for representing gender and age groups on the basis of their split available
through Indian Readership Study (Large scale baseline study conducted nationally by Media Research
Users Council (MRUC) & Hansa Research group) for Mumbai Municipal Corporation Region.
The required information was collected through face to face interviews with the help of structured
questionnaire.
In order to meet the respondent within a ward, following sampling process was followed:
 4 – 5 prominent areas in the ward were identified as the starting point
 In each starting point about 12 – 15 individuals were selected randomly and the questionnaire was
administered with them.
Once the survey was completed, sample composition of age & gender was corrected to match the
population profile using the baseline data from IRS. This helped us to make the survey findings more
representatives in nature and ensured complete coverage.
The total study sample was 15,191.

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