A city on the cusp of outgrowing Pune just got a significant upgrade to the systems watching over it. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, inaugurated a state-of-the-art CCTV and Intelligent Traffic Management System (ITMS) for the Pimpri-Chinchwad Police Commissionerate, laid the foundation stone for a new police complex, and launched a city-wide anti-drug campaign — signalling a decisive push to future-proof law enforcement in one of Maharashtra's fastest-growing urban centres. The Chief Minister's Office of Maharashtra posted details of the event, quoting Fadnavis: 'अमली पदार्थमुक्त आणि सुरक्षित पिंपरी-चिंचवडसाठी अत्याधुनिक पोलीस यंत्रणा!' — 'A cutting-edge police system for a drug-free and safe Pimpri-Chinchwad!' The ceremony also saw the formal transfer of the 7/12 land extract for the new police headquarters site at Tathawade, and the distribution of 350 body-worn cameras, 4 drones, and 65 new police vehicles.

Tathawade HQ, 50 Acres and India's Most Modern Commissionerate

At the heart of Tuesday's announcements is a vision for what Fadnavis described as the country's most modern police commissionerate. Fifty acres of land has been allocated for the new police headquarters. The CM credited the late Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar — referred to in the post as 'स्व. अजित पवार' — with personally overseeing the architectural design of the new commissionerate building. The Pimpri Police Complex whose foundation was laid today will house the Pimpri Police Station, the Deputy Commissioner's Parimal Division 1 office, a divisional office of the Anti-Narcotics Task Force, and 200 government residential quarters. The CM emphasised that modern, well-appointed housing for police families was a core goal — a deliberate break from the traditional barracks model.

Dial 112, AI-Powered 'Tapas Sarathi', and the Blockchain Evidence Trail

Fadnavis pointed to Pimpri-Chinchwad's record as the state's top-ranked commissionerate on emergency response time. The Dial 112 system has brought response time down to 3 minutes, a benchmark Fadnavis presented as proof that technology investment translates directly to public safety. The new CCTV and ITMS network will extend that advantage to traffic management and real-time crime monitoring. For investigators, the CM highlighted 'Tapas Sarathi', an AI-assisted investigation platform that uses blockchain technology to manage the evidence chain from the moment a case is registered through to the filing of a chargesheet in court. Body-worn cameras will feed the Command and Control System in real time, protecting both citizens and officers. Fadnavis noted that AI tools help overcome human limitations in investigation — and that conviction rates are already rising as a result.

The Drug-Free Maharashtra Mission: A 3-to-4-Year Countdown

The inauguration doubled as the launch of the 'Nashamukta Pimpri-Chinchwad Abhiyan' — the Drug-Free Pimpri-Chinchwad Campaign. Fadnavis issued a blunt warning: narcotics are being pushed into India deliberately to erode the capabilities of its youth and thereby stall national progress. The state government, he declared, has set a firm target of making the country drug-free within the next 3 to 4 years. The strategy is multi-pronged — treatment for those already addicted, mass public awareness, crackdowns on production, and dismantling distribution networks. Fadnavis called on parents to seek timely counselling and medical help for children showing signs of addiction, and urged every citizen to join the anti-drug mission at the household, neighbourhood, village, district, and state level.

Planning for a City Larger Than Pune

Running beneath every announcement on Tuesday was a single demographic reality: within the next 15 years, Pimpri-Chinchwad's population is projected to exceed Pune's. Fadnavis used that projection as both a challenge and a call to arms for the police force — the infrastructure being built and the technology being deployed today must be scaled to serve a much larger city tomorrow. Deputy CM Eknath Shinde, Deputy CM Sunetra Ajit Pawar, Minister Chandrakant Patil, and other senior officials were present at the event, alongside Pimpri-Chinchwad Mayor Ravi Landge and Pune Mayor Manjusha Nagpure. Pimpri-Chinchwad is being wired, watched, and readied — the only question now is whether the construction timeline can keep pace with the city growing around it.