Life-saving drones saved £550K Police helicopter bill
The drones which have now been upgraded have flown 225 sorties accounting for 66 hours of flying time
Cambridge RCAT with police drones
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Cambridge Rural Cops say Police drones which have been deployed for the last year have not only spared lives but saved taxpayers £550K in using the police helicopter.
YCMH asks police to claim decade-old viscera samples
YCMH asks police to claim decade-old viscera samples
ByVicky PathareVicky Pathare / Updated: Feb 16, 2021, 06:00 IST
Hospital authorities write to both
PCMC and
rural cops to transfer the organs to lab
In any suspected murder case or medico-legal case, the viscera report obtained after the post-mortem of the deceased holds prime importance. However, with viscera samples of over 300 deceased people lying in neglect in a locked room of
Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial Hospital (
YCMH), it seems that neither Pimpri-Chinchwad police nor Pune rural cops are in any hurry to close these cases.
Housing viscera jars of more than 300 bodies, the store wears an almost eerie look, where some of these samples are said to be lying since 2011. Many of the bottles do not even have labels on them anymore to help identify the name of the victim. According to experts, such organs have a 24-hour window to be transferred to a forensic science la