New age policing using new technology techniques for a more secure municipal corporation

With the advent of emerging technologies, smart criminals, increasing cases of cyber crime, it has become imperative for policing to be smart, fast and ahead of the curve to ensure a more safe and secure city for the citizens.

Ahmedabad city police has moved beyond the era of CCTV cameras and basic analytics to the era of advanced analytics that will analyze digital footprints, perform advanced analytics on videos and tag criminals to track them as they surface. will be able to do.

With the ever-evolving technology landscape, it is important for the police to adopt cutting-edge technologies such as predictive policing, facial recognition, advanced data analytics, artificial intelligence video summarization etc. The Ahmedabad city police is under the guidance of the central and state home departments. Process for setting up state-of-the-art Nirbhaya Analysis and Research Center (NARC). NARC will be one of those unprecedented initiatives which will incorporate multiple national and state level technical interfaces and help fast track critical investigations. NARC will be able to receive a wide variety of data sets and process them to provide actionable insights to investigators.

It is said that, "Data is the new oil", Ahmedabad city police recognizes the importance of data and hence is in the process of creating a data lake for various data sets. These data sets can then be co-correlated together to yield meaningful results, which include predicting crimes, predicting criminal hotspots, etc. These inputs emanating from these data sets will provide the necessary information for city policy to use its resources more effectively and economically. Hence, it is envisaged that the technology will not only help the city police to keep the city safe but will also prove to be cost effective for the exchequer money.

While we talk of civil defence, it is of utmost relevance to focus on the safety of women, senior citizens and children. Ahmedabad city police has started with its recent initiative and will start many services which are specially related to women, senior citizens and children. Some of these services are

1. Women's teams
2. Abhayam Vans
3. All Women Cyber Unit
4. QR code in public transport
5. One city mobile app
6. EKTA Maidan
7. One Stop Crisis Center

Ahmedabad City Police is in a new dawn of innovation and is constantly changing the way they serve the citizens of their city.