Nagaland Police receives smart policing award

DIMAPUR, MAY 6 (MExN): The Nagaland State Police today received a national level award for smart policing. The State Police’s SMS based Vehicle Monitoring System bagged the National Award for Smart Policing instituted by Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), under the Road Safety and Traffic Management category.  

It was presented to the Nagaland Police by Minister for State for Home Affairs, Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary in a function held at FICCI Auditorium in New Delhi on Friday. The award was received by Dr. KPA Ilyas, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Zone 2, Dimapur Police.  

The Minister highlighted the need for technology upgradation to meet the security challenges and also to be sensitive to the citizens at the grass-root level. He also highlighted the concept of Smart Policing to meet the emerging challenges.  

The jury for the awards was chaired by former Home Secretary, GK Pillai. Manjari Jaruhar, former Special DG, Central Industrial Security Force; N Ramachandran, former DGP Meghalaya; Alok Bansal, Director, India Foundation; and Milan Narendra, Director, Government Advisory Services, EY were the other members of the jury. Nagaland Police was among the six state police departments selected, for making presentations on the best smart policing initiatives across the country after the award ceremony.  

The SMS based Vehicle Monitoring System was conceived by the Nagaland State Police Department and executed by Ben Imchen, a post graduate  from IIT Delhi and proprietor of Elysium Enterprises .The project was launched in April last year and has resulted in substantial reduction in the theft of four wheelers across the state. Also, more than 100 vehicles have been recovered so far using the application.  

It provides an easy platform for policemen and citizens to report vehicle theft and alert the various field formations of police across the state through sending one SMS. It also provides an easy and instant access to police to the various official repositories of vehicular data that enables police personnel in the field to verify the genuineness of the vehicle documents in a matter of seconds.