West Delhi becomes fourth district to have e- Malkhana
New Delhi: Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Kumar Patnaik inaugurated the "e- Malkhana" project of West District at Punjabi Bagh Police Station on Friday. The digitization of all the case properties, their bar-coding, packaging in boxes, arrangement in order in proper shelves, sheds marks will lead to achievement of the objective of "Smart Policing and Swachh Bharat" mission.
West District has become the fourth district of Delhi to achieve complete digitization of Malkhans in all its 12 police stations. E-Malkhana project will pave the way for the handling of case properties in a more professional manner. Proper arranging of case properties has led to cleaning and clearing of police station premises, thereby creating more space and making the area presentable, people-friendly and welcoming.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (West) Monika Bharadwaj stated that the audience was also shown a short film on concept and implementation of e-Malkhana system. The police commissioner released a handbook on awareness of staff deployed at Malkhanas.
Speaking on the occasion, he underlined that maintenance of Malkhana has always been a priority to keep the case property in safe custody and its retrieval for presenting before the court and back safely. After digitization, it would be easy to retrieve the case property and would also save valuable time and energy. Synchronization of functioning of Malkhanas in all the 12 police stations of West District was a big challenge.
Monika Bhardwaj informed that there are two new initiatives in digitalization of Malkhanas of West District. As a new initiative, even the Malkhana (GP) has been digitalized for the first time in Delhi Police.
R.P. Upadhyaya, Special CP, Law and Order (South), Special CP Nuzhat Hassan, Madhup Tiwari, Joint CP (Western Range), Devesh Chandra Srivastava, Joint CP (Southern Range), Ajay Chaudhry, Joint CP (New Delhi Range), Sagar Preet Hooda, Joint CP (Northern Range) were also present on the occasion.
