Bangalore: The Bangalore Police Control Room receives nearly 1,200 calls everyday and it's now time for the response system to get faster. The police has decided to go the GPS way to improve its emergency response system.
Bangalore Police Commissioner Ajai Kumar Singh, says, "The GPS system will help the police to make sure that there is no gap between the receipt of the complaint and the action taken. Since all complaints will be documented, we can even figure out whether action was taken in a case or not. We can also communicate more efficiently with our patrol vehicles."
The police has so far always used a manual system of recording every complaint, putting up key information on the local area network and then sending a message to the wireless officials to depute cars to various scenes of crime.
While this does relay information to the Hoysala patrol vehicles as efficiently, the Global Positioning System will improve the navigation systems. It will monitor where every patrol vehicle is and direct it to the scene of crime.
"The GPS is all set to be implemented in two months time. I am hoping we can complete it in one month but two months definitely," says Singh.
He adds that the concept is certainly not new to Bangalore as the city's metropolitan transport corporation already uses GPS to track its vehicles.
However, for tackling crime, this is a first.
A few days ago, CNN-IBN had received a mail from a reader, Sukumar, that his calls to 100 didn't get him any response. But with GPS, the police control room can monitor where every patrol vehicle goes or does not go.
The report of the GPS tracking can even be taken on an e-mail. So complaints like Sukumar's should hopefully be cut down.
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