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Chennai Metropolitan Police on Tuesday launched Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping of crime areas in the city. Greater Chennai Police Commissioner Shankar Jewal has initiated the project on the Integrated Command and Control Room (ICCR) under the Safe City Program to embed location intelligence to prevent crime across the GCP jurisdiction.
According to the statement, a special center for geographic information systems has been set up in the commissioner’s office. It is equipped with latest GIS software tools and technologies that help in compiling data from Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS), daily service records, daily incident reports and other important data sets from Social Welfare Department of Greater Chennai Institution.
More than 60,000 crime records were collected between 2016 and 2022 from CCTNS, the statement said, and daily service records have been mapped to their exact locations by more than 300 trained police personnel.
She added that a comprehensive process of daily incident data recording and dissemination through a web-based Geographic Information System (GIS) analytics dashboard has been established to visualize and make informed decisions to prevent crimes across the city.
As part of the data collection activity, the geolocation of around 67,000 cameras installed at critical locations in Chennai from various projects has been mapped on GIS maps to support officers during investigation.
These locations include institutions such as women and children support centers, educational institutions, pink toilets, street lights, markets and other sensitive areas as part of 36 layers of GIS that provide important information for conducting analysis and making quick decisions to ensure the safety of citizens, especially women and children.
“The latest integrated AVLS system has been deployed with the ability to support more than 5,000 GPS-equipped vehicles and more than 2,000 police personnel through a specialized mobile application. The program will assist officers Police stations plan their strikes and monitor operations on specially designed live GIS dashboards.”
The control room will use an integrated AVLS module to locate the closest patrol vehicle to the accident site to answer the call, saving valuable time and improving efficiency. The statement added that police personnel who have a security unit can capture location details with images that will be recorded on crime area map servers for analysis.
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