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The Times of India
The Times of India
National
Sanjay Khajuria | TNN

Identify areas where technology can be put to use for improvement in quality of policing: DGP

JAMMU: Asserting that modern equipments bring transparency to the system and improvement in the quality of policing on various fronts, the Director General of Police (DGP) J&K Dilbagh Singh on Monday directed for identifying the areas where more & more technology can be put to use and also for preparing action plans for introducing the technologies in these areas.

DGP J&K Singh said this while chairing a high level meeting at Police Headquarters here today to review various technologies being used by J&K Police and the need of futuristic technologies for efficient policing.

Speaking on the occasion, the DGP said that though many latest technologies and up gradation of gadgets have already taken place in the department yet the survey and adoption of futuristic technologies is the need of the hour.

He said artificial intelligence, drones, CCTV, robotics and other modern technologic tools need to be used for the safety and security of the people and added that we need to identify the manpower and technology which can be put in use to enhance the capability and capacity of the Police personnel. "All the Police forces around the world are using number of modern technologies for efficient policing and minimizing human intervention in case of rescue and other operations."

He directed for identifying the areas where more & more technology can be put to use and also for preparing action plans for introducing the technologies in these areas.

DGP Singh underlined that modern equipments bring transparency to the system and improvement in the quality of policing on various fronts. During the meeting existing technology solutions adopted and futuristic required technologies were discussed threadbare which also included GIS mapping system, Data security, learning management system, integrated traffic management system, latest communication system etc. besides up gradation of training centers.

Earlier the DGP Singh was briefed through a PowerPoint presentation wherein technology being used in Security, Traffic, CID, Crime, Telecom and Training wings of the J&K Police were discussed.

The officers also briefed the DGP, J&K about the technological tools for crime prevention and investigation which includes Predictive Policing, Big data analysis and also mobile forensics.

The meeting was attended by Spl DG CID J&K R R Swain, ADGP Headquarters, PHQ M K Sinha, ADGP Coordination, PHQ Danesh Rana, IGP Headquarters, PHQ B S Tuti, IGP Traffic J&K Vikramjeet Singh, DIG Ms Sara Rizvi, DPT J&K Shridhar Patil, AIG (T&P) PHQ J S Johar, SSP Crime Jammu Rajeshwar Singh and other gazetted officers of PHQ.

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