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Police control rooms in three places to be automated

Thiruvananthapuram: The State police are planning to automate the functioning of police control rooms and flying squad patrol vehicles in Kollam, Thrissur and Thalassery as part of its Central government-funded modernisation drive.

Mobile patrol vans equipped with Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and Terrestrial Trunked Radio Network (TETRA) will help the police in these areas to respond quickly to distress calls from the public.

The GNSS will enable the police to identify (real-time) the location of the vans on a digital map of the district. The system automatically identifies the approximate location of a distress caller on a Geographic Information System (GIS)-based digital map of the district if a person calls the police control room (100) from a landline.

The control room officers could magnify the multi-layer vector digital map of the district up to 12 levels, enabling them to identify the individual house or institution from which the call originated.

The location of patrol vehicle nearest to the caller will be automatically highlighted on the digital map in the control room.

The control room officials would also be able to monitor the movement of the vehicle towards the incident spot real-time and provide back-up if necessary. They could help patrol vehicle officers find out the shortest route to the incident spot.

The TETRA sets will help control room managers reduce the response time of the police. It is a mobile radio platform which combines the features of a cellular mobile telephone and a conventional wireless set.

It enables the call-taker at the control room to directly call the patrol van nearest to the location of the distressed citizen, just as if he is making a mobile phone call. The police could send a text message to the police van detailing the situation and the response required.

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