Orissa Police: Bhubaneshwar: भुवनेश्वर पुलिस को तोहफा, डीसीपी ऑफिस में खुला हाईटेक कंट्रोल रुम..

BHUBANESWAR: The much-hyped hi-tech police control room that is expected to promptly help respond to emergency situations in the city came up on Wednesday, with chief minister Naveen Patnaik inaugurating the multi-channel telephonic control room, located inside the DCP's office here. "The key point of this `1.78 crore-control room is that it can facilitate fast dissemination of information among police personnel to improve their real time response to emergency situations," twin city police commissioner B K Sharma said. The control room is studded with three vital components: A computer-aided dispatch (CAD), automatic vehicle locator system (AVLS) and a geographic information system (GIS). The systems have been installed by US-based Inter-Act Public Safety Solutions, a leading provider of public safety software.

"While the CAD will guide the police in quickly responding to emergencies, the GIS will automatically trace the callers' location. The AVLS will track the movement of PCR vans so that the control room can identify and send the cops closest to the spot of crime," Sharma said. "The system will cut down on time and improve our response system," the police commissioner added. Nearly 69 police vehicles, comprising as many as 26 patrol vans have been linked with the GPS-enabled control room. There are 13 operators to receive distress calls from the public round-the-clock. As many as 30 calls can be received simultaneously on one telephone number (100). The control room received not less than four hundred calls till evening. "Most of the calls were false and did not warrant police intervention. However, we received around forty calls, relating to traffic problems in different locations," a police functionary at the control room said. The facility has of late been confined to Bhubaneswar alone. "We will soon expand the system to Cuttack," Sharma said. "Such systems have earlier been installed in Assam, Mumbai, Gujarat and Calcutta. Most of the gadgets were purchased from Singapore and Israel," said Paul A Tatro, president of Interact Public Safety Solutions, with whom the state government had signed a pact in April 2010. "Police have been trained to be conversant with the new system. Our company employees would regularly monitor the systems to avoid any technical glitches. Through biometric access control, we can prevent unauthorized access of the systems," Paul said. The control room has a well-equipped disaster centre to deal with crisis hours in the city, he informed. Naveen asked the police commissioner and other senior police officials to regularly monitor functioning of the control room for effective implementation of the system.