Kozhikode: The Kerala Police is widely planning projects including surveillance cameras on the premises of the police stations to improve control room systems. As a further step, two senior officers were sent to Uttar Pradesh, to do a comparative study on the UP Dial 100, installed a year ago, and successfully monitoring the control room system, from a single office. The officers, KAP IV commandant K. Sanjay Kumar Gurudin and Thiruvananthapuram Control Room AC Suresh Kumar V., are expected to present their report by the end of this week.
While in Kerala, though the public has facility to connect with police by dialling 100, the calls are directed to a local police station. A comprehensive control room system, like that of the UP Dial 100, will have a single office, handling the phone calls from across the state. The UP Dial 100 also has 2,000 vehicles exclusively for the project catering to the services across the state.
Phone calls from all networks get instantly connected to the control room. "Our purpose was to study and understand the best practices of policing being done in other states and whether those can be implemented here effectively for better policing is more important than simply following it. Similarly, other state police also study the best practices of Kerala state," said Mr Gurudin.
