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Police get mobile helpline

Staff Reporter

A VITAL LINK: Police Commissioner, C.K.Gandhi Rajan (right), receives a call on the new police control room helpline number launched by Hutch in Coimbatore on Wednesday. The CEO of Hutch (TN), Kumar Ramanathan (left), looks on. — Photo: K. An anthan

Coimbatore: Hutch cellular service provider on Wednesday inaugurated a six-line public alert service phone facility for the City Police control room.

The Chief Executive Officer of Hutch, Kumar Ramanathan, handed over six cellular phones with the identical number 9843 100100 in the presence of the City Police Commissioner, C.K. Gandhi Rajan at a function at the Modern Police Control Room of the City Police.

Two cellular phones would be for the police control room, besides one each for the Big Bazaar, Kattoor, Singanallur and Podanur police stations (one station in every sub-station comes under the phone line network).

Handing over the phones, Mr. Ramanathan assured the police that Hutch was "ready to extend its support for all the best and much required practices in public utility space".

Mr.Gandhi Rajan said that on dialling the number, the call would land on any of the six mobiles in order of priority. This hunting facility to six lines of the same number was to avoid complaints of phones being very busy. Even if the calls landed in a police station of a different jurisdiction, the police would communicate the message instantly to the jurisdiction concerned over the wireless or microwave phone.

Members of the public could make use of this facility to report law and order problems, crime, criminal movement, drunken brawls and even traffic snarls on any of the roads when they saw them while travelling.

For people with speech disability or those who were in distress and not able to make voice calls could send messages over Short Message Service (SMS).

The Deputy Commissioner of Police (Law and Order), K. Shanmugavelu said that the cellular phone public alert service would be yet another milestone in making police assistance "just a dial away".

He said that the initiatives such as anti-chain snatching squad had minimised the number of chain snatching incidents across the City.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (Head Quarters), S.V. Karuppusamy took part in the function.

Assistant Commissioners of Police (Control Room), C. Kandasamy and V. Muthusamy (Crime Record Bureau) welcomed and proposed a vote of thanks respectively.

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