Since June 2015, Crime Patrol has not only focused on creating awareness about crimes but has also aimed to help the victims depicted in the episodes. The series opens its viewers’ minds with these cases by making them aware of the crime around them.
Series anchor, Anup Soni, suggests the correct measures to avert crimes while narrating real-life stories revolving around harassment, kidnapping, and murder. The series presents dramatized versions of crime cases that occurred in India. The seventh season started on 10 july 2023. The last official episode of the show was aired on 22 January 2023 and went off-air due to poor ratings. In 2021, the show won the Milestone Achievement Award at the 20th Indian Television Academy Awards (ITA Awards). The series is in its fifth season which premiered on July 15, 2019. The series, which premiered on May 9, 2003, is the longest-running reality crime television series in India. The first and second seasons' episodes are 30 minutes long, while the subsequent seasons' episodes are 40 minutes long.
The first season was created by Cinevistaas Limited and directed by Anshuman Kishore Singh, while later seasons were created by Optimystix Entertainment. Crime Patrol is an Indian true crime anthology series created by Subramanian S.lyer for Sony Entertainment Television India and Sony Entertainment Television Asia.