According to the superintendent of police, Archana Shivhare, the system will enable cops to reach an emergency spot within 10 minutes of being summoned.
In a bid to reach out to people in case of emergency, Gandhinagar police have decided to install Global Positioning System (GPS) on all the police vehicles of Gandhinagar city and rural police.
According to the superintendent of police, Archana Shivhare, the system will enable cops to reach an emergency spot within 10 minutes of being summoned. “We have been working on the software of the GPS system, and it will be functional within the next month,” says Shivhare.
According to her, the system can tell the control room about the exact locations of all the police vehicles, which can enable the control room officers to instruct specific vehicles to reach a particular location.
“With this system, the control room doesn’t have to check the whereabouts of the vehicles manually, thus saving crucial time to react to an emergency situation,” said Shivhare.
In the wake of frequent terror attack threats received by the police, the system can play a crucial role in the safety and security of citizens. It also gains added importance for the state capital which houses important offices of government functionaries, the assembly, Sachivalaya a(secretariat), offices of boards and corporations, and most importantly, the residence and office of the chief minister.
However, in spite of it being such an important place, the police department took eight years to restart the whole GPS operation in Gandhinagar. In 1999, the city had become the first in India to have GPS devices installed on their police vehicles.
According to E Radhakrishnan, former SP of the state capital, the system was in place for almost three years before it vanished without a trace. “In 1999, Keshubhai Patel, the then CM, himself inaugurated the GPS control room and air-conditioned conference hall. After I left Gandhinagar in 2002, the system also vanished for some unknown reasons,” said Radhakrishnan, who is presently serving as JCP in Surat. According to him, the system was very much functional at that time, but somehow its usage stopped.
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