Gurugram: Police in Haryana have built a database of what they call “active criminals” across the state as part of a new intelligence model aimed at preventing crime.
Over the past seven months, police in the state have identified 45,207 active criminals and gone back to verify their current locations against existing records.
The exercise, built on what police call the RJSF pattern, began as a pilot in Rohtak. It was then extended to Jhajjar, Sonipat and Faridabad, before it was taken to nearly every district. The name RJSF is derived by combining the first letters of four Haryana districts.
The numbers, reviewed at a law-and-order meeting in Chandigarh, show the scale of the effort. Between 1 February and 25 August, police verified 57 percent, or 26,026 of the 45,207 listed criminals.
Of those checked, 7,425 were found at their registered addresses, 1,612 were in jail, and 375 had died. Police are still to trace he status of the remaining 19,137 on the list.
DGP Ajay Singhal said in a video released by the Haryana Police that policing had to keep pace with how crime itself was changing.
हरियाणा पुलिस का इंटेलिजेंस आधारित क्राइम मॉनिटरिंग मॉडल हुआ और मजबूत।
🔹 45,207 सक्रिय अपराधियों का डेटाबेस तैयार
🔹 26,026 अपराधियों की जांच पूरी—57.57% कवरेज
🔹 6,762 अपराधियों का FRS डेटा अपलोड
🔹 रोहतक, झज्जर व फरीदाबाद में 100% सत्यापन पूरा
डीजीपी श्री अजय सिंघल के निर्देश… pic.twitter.com/mb8C25H2Ab
— Haryana Police (@police_haryana) September 14, 2026
“Our objective is not merely to maintain records of criminals, but to use the available data to prevent crime before it occurs,” he said, adding that accurate, current information on a criminal’s identity, whereabouts and activity was the starting point for any control strategy.
Asked by ThePrint what qualifies someone as an “active criminal” in this exercise, Sanjay Kumar, ADGP, Law and Order, said the category covers those against whom police have source information indicating involvement in criminal activity, even though no complaint or evidence exists yet.
He said that the category also covers those who could not be located or contacted during verification.
Three districts have already finished the job. Rohtak, Jhajjar and Faridabad have verified 100 percent of their listed criminals.
Hisar is close behind at 99.11 percent, followed by Sonipat at 93.13 percent and Sirsa at 81.97 percent. Kaithal, Jind and Fatehabad are still working through their lists, at 68.43, 62.82 and 57.49 percent respectively.
Kumar said the RJSF approach was introduced in the crime-sensitive districts of Rohtak, Jhajjar, Sonipat and Faridabad to systematically track criminals—profiling them, verifying their status, mapping their networks and following up in the field.
The results from that trial, he said, were now being extended to other districts through a similar data-driven model.
Police have used that profiling to flag not just past offenders but people at risk of being pulled into gangs, screening for those most likely to reoffend or fall in with organised crime networks.
Alongside the verification drive, police have uploaded facial recognition data for 6,762 criminals so far, a step officials say will sharpen identification and tracking through technology rather than manpower alone.
A Haryana Police spokesperson explained that criminals rarely respect district borders, and the database is designed to travel with them, allowing police in one district to draw on intelligence gathered in another, rather than starting from scratch each time a suspect crosses over.
(Edited by Sugita Katyal)