Smart Technology Can Help In Smart Policing

Technology can change the way the police controls crime in a city and can help in its early detection. Deepak Ratan, Inspector General Of Police, Varanasi talks to Manish Arora of BW SmartCities about how by leveraging technology, the state police can prevent and reduce the crime rate in the city. Edited excerpts...

'UP 100 is now an established platform for providing emergency services of Police'

Policing became smarter in the state of Uttar Pradesh with UP Dial 100, the emergency response management system. The project is jointly implemented by Tech Mahindra and Mahindra Defence Systems to provide integrated emergency services relating to public safety across the State on 24×7 basis. A centralized contact center has been established at Lucknow for receiving all emergency calls directly from across the State, including remote rural areas. The results were encouraging. In about one year of its operation, UP100 provided assistance in more than 42 lakh cases and is currently catering to around 1.2 lakh citizen calls on daily basis. Chahat Jain of BW SmartCities talks to Aditya Mishra, ADG UP-100, about changing police perception in the state.

Obsolete policies need to be reviewed: Meenakshi Lekhi

Lekhi pointed out that given the current geo-political situation, there is a need to step up training of police officers and modernize the systems for better internal security.

Dr. Muktesh Chander, Special CP (Traffic), Delhi Police - on Secure Cities

It All Starts With You

There is a symbiotic relationship between safer cities and the community with one nurturing the other to alleviate societies’ vulnerabilities to crime and insecurity

Govt to set up national fingerprint database of criminals

The fingerprint database of convicts and crime offenders will be set up by the Home Ministry by collating records from all the states and union territories

Lucknow traffic police starts photo challan

Under the new photo challan system, traffic policemen will take a picture of violators through their smart-phones and upload it on the traffic police server

Home Ministry calls national conference on 'SMART' policing

As a first step towards 'SMART' policing, the government will establish one model SMART police station in each state for which specific funds will be allocated

Delhi Police plans GPS-enabled app for beat constables

Armed with a smart phone loaded with 'Beatbook', a beat constable would be connected to a centralised server to update records and fill logs from anywhere

Smart Policing: Hyderabad traffic cops to soon don 'Body Worn Cameras'

High resolution audio-visuals will be recorded in the camera and stored in a memory card. Feeds can be seen live from the police control room through 4G technology