Rajasthan police induct Mobile Investigation Unit Vans, hailed as 'mini police stations'

Rajasthan Police is all set to become the first among the state police departments in the country to get state-of-the-art Mobile Investigation Unit Vans to expedite crime investigation and facilitate the victims of the crime, officials said.

Jaipur: Rajasthan Police is all set to become the first among the state police departments in the country to get state-of-the-art Mobile Investigation Unit Vans to expedite crime investigation and facilitate the victims of the crime, officials said.

As per the officials, Rajasthan Police has built 71 such special vans at a cost of Rs 10 crore out of which around 20 vans are ready and have been brought to the police headquarters. The rest of the vans will also be available to the Rajasthan Police by the month of April, officials said. The special vans have been procured under the police budget along with Central government funding.

The vans with in-built crime investigation tools will facilitate both the police department as well as the crime victims by ridding them of frequent visits to the police stations, ADG Crime Dr. Ravi Prakash Mehra said, "Whether it is an incident of rape or any other serious crime, the police will be able to collect all kinds of evidence on the spot and also do sampling at the crime scene itself thanks to the Mobile Investigation Unit Vans. Along with this, a narcotics kit will also be present in the van enabling police to conduct preliminary investigation and sampling of drugs on the spot," Mehra said.

He said a separate kit will also be available in the van to pick up blood samples from the spot and samples of bullets etc. The van will have a high-power searchlight to search around the crime scene at night and a special type of tape will also be available to seal the entire crime scene. A specially designed kit will also be available in the van to investigate cases related to crimes against women, added the ADG.

He said the van will be a mini police station in itself which will help the investigators to complete the paperwork, with an in-built printer and computer in it, at the crime scene itself. “The biggest benefit of this will be to the women victim as she will not have to make repeated rounds of the police station. Such special types of vans are being used in India by the CBI and the Special Forces”.