Morung Express News
Dimapur | June 15
The Nagaland Police has launched an updated and new version of its web portal. The repackaged website – police.nagaland.gov.in – with new features was launched at a programme today by the Director General of Police (DGP) T John Longkumer at the Rhododendron Hall, NAPTC, Chumoükedima.
The website has been described as dynamic with greater focus on an interactive user interface and will replace the department’s existing nagapol.gov.in.
The website went live today and features informative “tabs” which citizens can access for information about the department and its activities. It includes a ‘Most Wanted’ list, FAQs, Crime Statistics, link to the national childline website and also a tab for form downloads besides others.
The DGP also launched an internet-based application- e-Patrol that seeks to enable real-time monitoring of the patrolling schedule of its on field personnel across the state. Developed in partnership with Ramietech Solutions, the mobile app can be installed on mobile phones by field personnel on the move.
The app developer described it as a “Unique one-of-a-kind system to digitally monitor and store patrolling data using GPS, software and mobile technologies” and intended to alleviate the problem of monitoring multiple patrolling units.
The developer added that it is user-friendly as well as secure as it can only be accessed only by authorized personnel at designated points through scanning of encrypted barcode.
According to the DGP, the Nagaland Police is attempting to go digital in every way possible. “The world is rapidly changing. The Police department also needs to redefine itself in this changing scenario,” he said.
Considering the social media onslaught of the time, he asserted that the department personnel should be able to establish a system of cooperation with the citizenry, while urging the citizens “to give the police the privilege of serving them better.”
The repackaged website, he said, was designed as per the specifications of the Ministry of Home Affairs’ guidelines for departmental web portals and supports a multi-lingual interface.
On the question of keeping the website live and active as envisioned, he said, “Our objective is to sustain it. Whenever upgrades, updates are required we will do it. The citizens can give us suggestions too.”
A weak point of the department’s erstwhile website was the inability to regularly update its phone directory. Its other weakness included uploading ‘not-in-use’ phone numbers of officers. The phone directory of the new website also had a few numbers missing.
Asked how the department seeks to deal with this problem, the DGP informed of a proposal to be sent to the government for operating a “Closed User Group” network of SIMs specifically for the department.
An armed motor-cycle squad of 50 units, for enhancing greater patrolling of the streets and swifter response, under the domain of the e-Patrol initiative was also flagged off by the DGP.
Motorbike-borne police squad is not new to Nagaland however. One such unit did not see much action after the initial fanfare.
On the new motorcycle police patrol, the DGP maintained that it will be sustained as the department is answerable to the MHA, which constantly keeps tab on the status of policing initiatives taken up by the department.
The launch coincided with the start of a two-day training programme on cyber crime for police personnel at the Rhododendron Hall.
