MDI Gurgaon ties up with Gurgaon police to scientifically analyise crime and combat it more effectively. Sanchayan Bhattacharjee reports
Indian B-schools are often criticised for not taking up social projects to commensurate the talent at their disposal both in terms of students and faculty members. However Management Development Institute (MDI) Gurgaon seems to be changing this trend by associating with the Gurgaon police to scientifically analyse crime data in the city.
The two projects pioneered by the MDI faculty and police are Crime Index and Shakti. According to the Alok Mittal, commissioner of police, Gurgaon, a helpline centre gets around 1000 calls per day. “We started taking feedback from the complainants with regards to whether the police action taken was adequate or not. Over a period of time, a large quantity of data was collected,” he says. Further, the police department wanted to explore the possibility of analysing this data. “In order to improve our responses, we wanted to profile the victims, perpetrators and even the areas where the crime occurred,” he says. Thus Mittal approached MDI for help with regards to the analysing part and the institute came on board. “In countries like USA, academic institutions often help law enforcement agencies. In India, I hope this can be a start,” he says.
The other project called Crime Index, hopes to gauge public perception of crime. “For example, we accord the highest importance to murder but to somebody in the city, a chain snatching incident may be more dangerous than somebody being killed because of a skirmish between two groups,” explains Mittal. Hence, it is important for the police to know which crime leads to more insecurity among citizens as the police and public perception of crime need to coincide. The objective of this initiative is to get a drift of the public opinion. According to Mittal, this data will help strategise better, improve the allocation of police officers in different areas based on public perception and allocate resources.
Both these projects are being carried out in Gurgaon and are in the initial stages of data collection via surveys and interviews. The timeline for completing these projects is 16-18 weeks and the commissioner hopes to extend the sample size depending on the results.
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