UP Police to go full throttle against networks backing organised crime

Lucknow: Signalling a shift from conventional policing to intelligence-led financial investigations, DGP Rajeev Krishna announced an aggressive strategy to dismantle the economic backbone of organised crime, targeting not only gangsters and mafia but also the white-collar networks that sustain them.As part of its future roadmap, police will intensify strategic, financial and technology-driven action against organised criminals, mafia syndicates and their associates. The move will be part of state’s zero-tolerance policy against crime under which several mafia networks have been weakened through property seizures and legal action.Senior police officials said the next phase of the crackdown will focus on identifying and dismantling the financial infrastructure behind criminal enterprises. Investigators will scrutinise illegally acquired assets, benami properties, shell companies, hawala channels, fraudulent transactions and other financial mechanisms used to generate, conceal and move illicit wealth.To trace criminal proceeds and financial trails, UP Police will strengthen coordination with specialised agencies, including economic offence and cyber crime units. Scientific financial investigations and technology-driven analysis will be employed to identify funding sources, beneficiaries and facilitators linked to organised crime networks.Officials said the objective is no longer limited to arresting offenders. The focus will be on dismantling entire criminal ecosystems, including their economic empires, patronage structures and support networks operating behind the scenes.The strategy marks a significant shift towards data-driven and evidence-based policing, with financial forensics, digital intelligence and inter-agency cooperation expected to play a key role in future operations. Police believe targeting the flow of illicit money will deliver a more lasting blow to organised crime than arrests alone.He said the objective is to ensure faster, transparent and citizen-friendly justice delivery by improving the quality of investigations, ensuring timely disposal of cases and strictly adhering to the statutory timelines of 60 to 90 days prescribed under the new criminal laws.Krishna said UP Police has made significant progress in building a technology-enabled and evidence-based criminal justice system. Through the e-Sakshya platform, processes related to the collection, preservation, authentication and presentation of digital and scientific evidence in courts are being strengthened.According to official data, against 10.93 lakh FIRs registered up to March 2026, as many as 10.65 lakh Digital Evidence IDs have been generated, while 6.07 lakh FIRs have been successfully linked with digital evidence records. The force has also made substantial progress in digitising judicial processes. Between Dec 1, 2024 and May 22, 2026, Uttar Pradesh Police ensured compliance with 4,96,506 e-summons, achieving an implementation rate of 86.5%.