Being wealthy or prominent isn’t enough to achieve success in life, but inspiration and motivation is’ seems to be the motto of Mira Bhayandar Vasai Virar (MBVV) Police Commissioner Sadanand Date. It was indeed motivation that led Date, who used to distribute newspapers to support his education, to become an IPS officer in 1990 and later being awarded with the President’s Police Medal for gallantry during the 26/11 attacks.

The recent feather in his cap being the MBVV police, formed in September 2020, recording the highest conviction rate last year at 82 per cent, claiming the top spot among all the commissionerates in the state. The state’s average conviction rate last year stood at around 55 per cent. This year, till August, MBVV police have a conviction rate of 60 per cent. Conviction rate is the number of cases where the court has given its verdict, against the total number of cases registered.