Haryana Police Is Watching 10,892 Criminals Right Now — STF Has Nabbed 941 Gangsters in 3 Years and DGP Ajay Singhal Is Just Getting Started
Haryana Police just held one of those meetings that sends a message — not just to the officers in the room, but to every gang operative, repeat offender and wanted criminal operating in the state. DGP Ajay Singhal, a 1992-batch IPS officer, gathered senior police leadership at the Haryana Police Headquarters in Panchkula recently, and what came out of that meeting paints a pretty clear picture of where things stand.
The headline number? 10,892. That’s how many accused and convicted individuals involved in serious crimes are currently being actively monitored by Haryana Police through a centralized criminal tracking network. Not historical records sitting in a dusty file somewhere. Active surveillance. Right now.
A Meeting That Meant Business
The review wasn’t a routine administrative exercise. It was a hard look at the performance of two of Haryana’s most critical anti-crime mechanisms — the Rohtak-Jhajjar-Sonipat-Faridabad (RJSF) Unit and the Haryana Special Task Force (STF).
DGP Singhal’s core message to police commissioners, range inspectors general and district superintendents of police was direct — districts cannot function as isolated units when it comes to organized crime. Gangs don’t respect district boundaries. They move across them deliberately, exploiting the gaps that exist between different police jurisdictions. The only way to counter that is to make sure intelligence flows just as freely.
“Advance knowledge of criminal movement allows local jurisdictions to take pre-emptive action in time,” the DGP said. The instruction was clear — if a district picks up information about a gang member’s movement or a suspect’s activity, that information goes to neighboring districts immediately. No delays, no holding information within silos.
What Exactly Is the RJSF Unit and Why Does It Matter?
This is the part that doesn’t get enough attention. The RJSF model is a specialized policing framework that was originally built around Rohtak — designed to track gang activity, repeat offenders and organized criminal networks that tend to bleed across district lines.
It worked well enough that it’s now been expanded to cover four districts — Rohtak, Jhajjar, Sonipat and Faridabad. IG Simrdeep Singh of Rohtak Range told the meeting that the model is functioning effectively across all four. But more importantly, he flagged that preparations are already underway to replicate it in other parts of Haryana — potentially creating a unified statewide monitoring network for organized crime.
That would be a significant development. Right now, the four-district coverage is already yielding results. Extending the same framework statewide means no pocket of the state would have a blind spot when it comes to tracking serious offenders.
10,892 People Under the Microscope — Here’s Who They Are
The database that underpins all of this contains records of 10,892 individuals who have been accused or convicted of serious crimes over the past decade. This isn’t a vague catchall category. These are people with histories linked to murder, attempt to murder, violent offences, organized criminal activity and gang-related cases.
What makes this database valuable isn’t just the size of it — it’s how it’s being used. District police units can quickly cross-check names, identify repeat offenders before they reoffend, flag gang associates who pop up in new locations and flag individuals with histories of violent behavior who may be planning something.
It also helps connect dots that might otherwise go unnoticed. A low-level arrest in one district might link back to a gang leader in another. A suspicious movement reported in Faridabad might connect to a murder case being investigated in Rohtak. The centralized database is what makes those connections possible.
Stopping Gang Recruitment Before It Happens
One thing Haryana Police is paying particular attention to is the front end of the gang pipeline — recruitment. Gangs don’t sustain themselves without fresh members. And they’re not random about who they target.
According to officials at the review meeting, criminal networks in Haryana specifically go after young offenders, people recently released on bail, individuals with prior criminal records and vulnerable youth who already have some connection to the criminal world. These are people who are either already in the system or on the margins of it — making them easier to pull in.
Local intelligence units have been tasked with keeping tabs on recruitment patterns and sharing that information up the chain. The logic is straightforward — it’s much easier to prevent someone from joining a gang than to arrest them after they’ve become a full member. Disrupting recruitment disrupts the gang’s future capacity.
STF Numbers That Speak for Themselves
The Haryana STF’s track record over the past three years is significant. 941 gang-linked criminals arrested — that’s not a small operation. Waseem Akram, Superintendent of Police of the Haryana STF, presented these figures at the review, and the sustained nature of the crackdown is worth noting.
This isn’t a burst of activity that happened once and then faded. The STF has maintained consistent, intelligence-driven operations targeting gang leadership, active members and the support networks that keep these organizations running. Officials say the pressure has genuinely disrupted several criminal organizations operating in and around Haryana.
22 Fugitives Brought Back — 14 More in the Pipeline
Here’s something that doesn’t always make the headlines but matters a lot. Haryana-based gangs have, over the years, sent key operatives and leaders abroad. Some fled after committing crimes. Others had been operating from overseas for years, directing operations on the ground remotely.
Getting them back isn’t easy. It requires coordination with foreign law enforcement, legal proceedings in multiple countries and sustained diplomatic follow-through. The STF has managed to bring 22 wanted criminals back to India so far. Nine of those came back in 2026 alone — which suggests the pace is picking up.
Fourteen more are currently in custody overseas and are going through legal processes for their return. When those extraditions come through, it’ll be a meaningful blow to whatever networks these individuals were still directing from abroad.
The Plan Going Forward
The meeting wrapped up with DGP Singhal reiterating what he wants to see — relentless inter-district coordination, no gaps in information sharing and zero tolerance for organized crime networks using jurisdictional seams to stay ahead of the police.
The RJSF expansion to more districts is expected to move ahead. The STF will continue its targeted operations. And the 10,892-person watchlist will keep growing as more offenders come into the system and existing records are updated.
What Haryana Police is building, piece by piece, is something that looks increasingly like a genuine intelligence-led policing architecture — one that treats criminal networks as fluid, cross-border operations requiring a response that’s equally fluid and coordinated. Whether it fully gets there depends on execution. But the direction is clear, and DGP Singhal seems intent on pushing it through.
For the gangs operating in Haryana? The walls are closing in from multiple directions at once.
