The Bengaluru City police plans to outsource technology-based police work to non uniformed technical cadres to further high-tech policing in the city. Whether it will approach tech companies or go to campuses to seek such technical support is yet undecided.Speaking to ET, city police commissioner Praveen Sood said, “If I have to introduce new technology initiatives, it will easily take two years and I won't be in the same post to implement and monitor it. We don't have time to train our staff. So, we have decided to outsource the work to tech experts and use them in cracking cases."
With the government giving this idea its 'go-ahead', the tech team is expected to be functioning by the end of April. Sood is also opening the new cyber crime wing under the central crime branch in the next one month.
Arguably the country's most tech-savvy force, the BCP - which boasts of 8.11 lakh followers on Twitter - is looking at bringing in ethical hackers who can stay ahead of the game when it comes to online fraud.
Facial recognition software and finger print software are also on the cards. At present, the city police use call records and mobile phone tower locations to solve online crime.
When it comes to hardware, the When it comes to hardware, the city police is among the best equipped, technically. On a day-to-day basis, it uses Hoysala, the GPS-fitted mobile squads. Digital notepads, photographs of crime scene and other details are relayed at the touch of a button from crime scenes.
The city police has already digitalised information of 51,352 people with criminal records. The database has photos, videos, and in most cases, their Aadhaar card details.
Besides exploiting Twitter and Facebook to the maximum, they are the first to use Blackberry phones to book traffic offenders and to use point-of-sale machines during the cash crunch.
Vinod Chandrashekar, a data scientist who has worked with the city police in identifying patterns in crime data and crime mapping, believes it is high time the city police adopted high tech software in their work. “After all, we are the Silicon Valley of India,“ he said.
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