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City police to fine-tune policing tools Law and order

The City Police are going ahead with fine-tuning its tools. The police have stepped up efficiency of its Shadow Force, to begin with.

Senior officials in the force say that flow of information has increased ever since the Shadow Force has started yielding results. At any point of time, 40 teams of shadow force comprising 80 personnel will be present in different parts of the city, said City Police Commissioner Manoj Abraham.

During last year, the force could make 850 arrests, which included cases such as narcotics, immoral traffic and counterfeit currency. Personnel deployed in the Shadow Force often have to work for days on end to crack a case. The Shadow Force report directly to the Commissioner or the Assistant Commissioner, Special Branch, to ensure secrecy of operations, said Mr. Abraham.

As the next step in this direction, the City Police are working out the finer details to integrate shadow policing with the community policing initiative. “This will be done after commissioning of City Lights, the digitisation of beat patrolling system,” said Mr. Abraham.

City Lights have been conceived as an effort to modernise the beat patrol system by replacing patta books with electronic fingerprint readers. According to the present system, patta books are kept at residences of important persons or organisations such as banks for the policemen on beat patrol to sign.

Each patrol team will be given a time schedule to cover a beat, where they will have to sign at various points to ensure their presence.

“A controlling system will be installed at the Control Room to which burglar alarms set up in different parts of the city would be connected. In case of break-ins, the Control Room will be automatically alerted,” said Mr. Abraham.

During later stages of the project, cameras will also be installed. These cameras will become operational on getting burglar alarms. The City Police have already implemented many innovative programmes such as Smart Vehicle Tracking System (SVTS) using Global Positioning System in patrol vehicles, installing monitoring cameras at strategic points in the city and putting up check-posts at entry points to the city.

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