Women’s cyber cell, automated traffic challan, online fine collection are some of the new projects
The Ahmedabad Police Department has new plans for the new year. Among the many safety and awareness projects, the city police will give more prominence to women's safety, improving road infrastructure, and traffic maintenance.
Other areas of focus will include introducing new surveillance and security equipment along with automation. The police aim to ease road traffic this year.
While speaking to DNA, Police Commissioner AK Singh said that nearly 20 projects will be launched while traffic, infrastructure issues will be handled with a new approach.
Improving Vehicle Movement
The Ahmedabad Police Department will expand its traffic management capacity using a more systematic and policy-based structure for the same rather than using muscle power alone. In 2018, the police collected around Rs 35 cr spot fine from traffic offenders. The system of fine-collection will be automated this year. The Central Road Research Institute (CRRI) will study the city's road movement and its faulty infrastructure. Identified spots will be improved and sorted accordingly. For example, some of the major junctions located on the SG highway lane will be reworked and infrastructural change will be undertaken to reduce traffic congestion and ensure fast traffic movement on the lanes.
Vehicles & Equipment
The city police department's New Year's gift to self will include 100 new PCR vehicles this year. The vehicles will also work as Abhayam vehicles with facilities for female and child victims. Every vehicle will have a women police official. All police vehicles will have Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras which will recognise traffic offenders and will issue challans too. The 1,006 CCTV cameras that are installed will be upgraded to automatically capture photos of those driving without helmets. Traffic cops will get over 500 mobile devices which will enable them to issue challans to traffic offenders and to detect repeat offenders and track their pending challans. Officers will also be able to collect fine online and by card payment. Every police station will have the capacity to take cyber complaints so that complainants can approach the nearest police station rather than going all the way to the Cyber Cell police station.
Women's Safety Initiatives
There are a total of 48 police stations in Ahmedabad of which only two are women's police stations right now. But that is set to change this year as all 48 police stations will have a desk of female police staff dedicated to helping female victims. Two single spot-rise response centres for women will also be built, one on the eastern side and the other on the western side. The centres will be equipped to provide shelter and medical aid. The city will also get two cyber cell police stations for women which it will be located at the existing women's police stations. The women cyber cell police stations will be equipped to deal with the cyber-related complains.
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