The crime detection rate of the Thane police commissionerate has improved from 67 per cent in 2021 to 70 per cent in 2022, with 8,383 of the 11,961 crimes registered being solved, a senior official said on Saturday.

However, the number of rapes, molestation, murders, chain snatching, extortion as well as incidents of offenders posing as policemen to dupe citizens saw a rise, commissionerate data revealed.