Gurugram: The headlight is broken, a prominent pipe from the truck carriage, the name of the bread paid on the van.
The team consisting of five trained police officers in blink-and-you-miss-it details like this on the film CCTV in six months cracked 15 “blind” hit-and-run case.
Preparing this March, the Dedicated Accident Response (ART) team was the only special unit at Haryana Police.
Member of art, all Gurugram police personnel, have undergone extensive training in scanning CCTV recording.
The art mandate, led by sub-inspectors, is to investigate only cases of accidents, many of which remain unsolved or see the defendant escaped due to lack of witnesses and evidence.
Art is the idea of DCP (Manesar) Varun Singla, who lost five relatives with the accident on the road in 2013.
“I understand the pain of the family affected by the accident,” Singla said.
Art helps the victims get compensation (Manesar) Varun Singla, the brain behind the initiative, the word art also performs a tiring document that helps the victims claim compensation.
The purpose of the unit settings, he said, also to act as a deterrent because of anyone who pushed rashly would know the art of coming after them.
One of the first cases of this unit took an accident that occurred on March 23 at night when a 12-year-old boy was injured in a hit-and-ran in Patudi died on his way to the hospital.
The team found CCTV feed from a camera installed outside the school near the accident site and focused on the truck that had passed the area around the same time.
NumberPlate is not legible because it’s dark.
But the cargo gave some instructions, the art of concluded that they needed to find trucks carrying waste pipes.
“We are looking for all factories in areas that make pipes like that and question their employees.
When we finished with all the pipe manufacturers in Gurugram, some of our officers went to the reward side by side and showed the truck footage to factory workers there.
One of the manufacturers identified Trucks.
They share vehicle details and owners.
The driver was arrested in a few days, “said Sub-Inspector Harpal, who led the art.
Leads don’t always come from scanning CCTV recordings.
Some are good, ancient dettings too.
In June, a 32-year-old technician from a leading car company died after being hit by a van on the Delhi-Gurugram toll road in Narsinghpur.
When art taking probes, there is no camera that focuses on the accident site.
The technician was on the two wheels hit by a truck.
“We asked a number of people who had seen the accident from a distance.
No one tells the number of vans, but some of them say it transports bread goods,” said Harp.
“So, we scan CCTV footage from the nearest area to van with bread items and find a van that has a bakers name on it.
We asked company officials, and vehicles and drivers finally traced,” Harpal added.
In other hits and running.
Farukhnagar, the only clue possessed by the police was a broken piece of lights at the crash.
They concluded it belonged to a truck.
All police checks around them were alerted.
Vehicles with main lights are seen near the toll plaza on KMP.
Toll road, two and a half hours from the accident point.
Investigations in Hit-and-Run cases also involve filling out a complete form, which includes the most detail of the crash site.
Officers in the team need to record details such as vehicle positions during a accident, the position of the victim, the path where the accident occurred, road width, the impact on traffic and other direct evidence.
Some of this evidence is the key to facilitating compensation for the victim’s family.
“Investigative officers are required to submit all these details in court.
On this basis, compensation is given.
There are many cases where the victim’s family cannot get compensation because of the lack of detail minutes like that,” said Singla.
“This is not only caught the defendant, ensuring that the family affected by compensation is also part of our work.
For this reason, we need to record each and every detail, even what might seem insignificant,” DCP said.
Policier art: 15 Hits – & – Run a crack case at GGM
