The General control of the State Computer Centre is vested with Addl. Director General of Police, CID, MS, Pune, who is assisted by Spl. Inspector General of Police, SCRB, Supdt. of Police (Technical Services). Dy.S's.P.are deputed at Ranges & Commissionerates, who supervise working of Computerization in respective Ranges & Commissionerates.

The Nation-wide Computerization project, viz Crime Criminal Information System (CCIS) of National Crime Record , Bureau New Delhi has been implemented in all Forty-five Police Units of the State & at State Crime Record Bureau Pune with effect from 1st Jan.1998. The data pertaining to Crime/Criminal of each Unit is entered on Unit Computers.

This data facilitates retrieval of information on various parameters as given below.

a) Criminal Modus of Operandi Index on Major Head, Minor Head and Place of occurrence of crime.

b) Criminal Name-wise Index on Name, Father’s Name, Major Head or Section.

c) List of vehicles on Type, Make & Status such as whether it is Stolen/Recovered/Seized.

Such types of reports are useful for the investigating officers to detect Crime. Besides CCIS, Portrait Building Package is also available with all the Districts / Commissionerates. This Package is useful for preparing a portrait of suspected Criminals on the basis of available description.

In Maharashtra, Finger Print Bureau was established in 1899 at Pune under the control of Inspector General of Police, Bombay Presidency. At present there are 3 regional Bureaux at Mumbai, Nagpur and Aurangabad, which are engaged in recording and searching finger impression slips of arrestee and retrieval of chance prints found at scenes of crime. Advance Computerized FACTS (Finger Print Analysis and Criminal Tracing System) has been installed and has become functional from July 2004. A central server installed at Pune is linked with 41 Police Units. Finger Print Data of 2,00,000 criminals is updated on the “FACTS”. More than two hundred persons are working at 4 bureaux and 41 Dist Units, continuously with modern equipments to handle Finger Print work for investigation.

Finger Print Science is a perfect science of identification, based on two fundamental principles i. e. Individuality and Persistency. Ridges on the friction skin on the hands and feet of an individual are unique and persist throughout human life.

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Mumbai unit attends the work of Handwriting cases of Brihan Mumbai, Nagpur unit attends cases of Vidharbha region. Aurangabad unit attends cases of Marathwada region. The Handwriting section of Pune attends cases from the remaining parts of the State.

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The Examiners of Documents are required to examine Questioned Documents in connection with Identification of Handwriting and Detection of Forgeries including problems of the following nature :-

1. Questioned signatures.
2. Fraudulent alterations.
3. Genuine document erroneously or fraudulently altered.
4. Anonymous letters for their authorship.
5. Authorship of superscriptions.
6. Sequence of writings.
7. Mechanical and Chemical erasures.
8. Identification of typewriting, printed material.
9. Ascertaining genuineness of Rubber Stamp impressions.
10. Threatening Letters, suicidal notes, Chits found at Scene of Crime.

The most common disputed documents are indicated above and they may be in the form of drafts, orders, contracts, agreements, assignments, wills, deeds and the like. Tickets of different kind, rare stamps, valuable manuscripts, certificates, letters of introduction or recommendation, degrees and diplomas, court papers, autographs, letters from or signed by famous personalities etc.

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Questioned documents are examined carefully in original by the examiner of documents with the help of magnifying apparatus under different magnification and with the help of different lighting conditions such as direct light, oblique light, transmitted light and also ultra violet light. They are examined under stereoscopic microscope, Video Spectral Comparator, Poliview. Examination of documents is aided by enlarged photographs which are prepared in photographic sections. Photographs obtained with special technique by making use of microscope, ultra violet rays are also used in examination of certain types of Questioned documents. Expert opinion based on such examination is furnished to the Officers or agencies referring cases to the state C.I.D..

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Examiner of Documents gives evidence in the Court whenever called upon to do so in order to prove their findings on Questioned documents.