The City Police here are all set to launch the Mobile Crime and Accident Reporting Platform (MCARP) project during the first week of April. The project will enable the police to capture still and moving images during emergency situations like agitations, traffic snarls and eve-teasing and immediately send them to the mobile phones of the senior officers, who can evaluate the situation and initiate immediate action.

‘‘The project is being implemented as a prelude to the m-governance project of the state government,’’ said Ch. Nagaraju, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Thiruvananthapuram. The project will be piloted for one to two weeks.

In utmost emergencies, like the removal of an explosive from an aircraft recently, senior officials are clueless until they reach the spot. If the Sub Inspector deputed at the spot has a mobile phone equipped with a quality camera, he can easily take and send the picture and keep the senior officer updated with the proceedings, Nagaraju said.

As many as 20 officers, including the City Police Commissioner, two Deputy Commissioners, three Assistant Commissioners, three Circle Inspectors and 11 Sub Inspectors have been included in the project, with 3G facility being activated in their mobile phones. The key feature of the project is that the photographs and videos will be automatically sent to the main server located at the State Cyber Cell as soon as they are recorded. The project uses the Mobshare Technology developed by MobMe, a software company headed by a group of youngsters.

Lishoy Bhaskar of MobMe, the project director of MCARP, told ‘Expresso’ that they have successfully implemented the system in Kochi. Fourteen police patrolling vehicles of the Kochi City Police have been equipped with mobile phone cameras. But in Kochi, the operations are being carried out using GPRS technology, which needs more time to upload photographs.

‘‘It is the first time ever that we are experimenting with 3G technology which will make it possible to transfer video clippings also,’’ said Lishoy.

If the project turns out to be a success, the police plan to expand the project by equipping all the control room vehicles with such mobile phones. There are also plans to establish a surveillance system of mobile phones with cameras of the public.

The City Police are also considering carrying out surveillance at cyber cafes by providing login IDs with photographs for the cafe users.

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Autor(en)/Author(s): Rejith Balakrishnan

Quelle/Source: Express Buzz, 31.03.2010

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