Hyderabad City Police Mobile Application HYD-COP has been selected for "Award of Excellence" by the CSI-Nihilent e-Governance Awards under Category of Projects.
Hyderabad COP is a mobile based Technology Application Platform hosting a slew of Applications for empowering Frontline Police Officers in real time through Decision Support Systems under SMART Police Initiative. All the IT applications and databases currently in use in Hyderabad City Police have been made available to the officers in the field on need to use basis through this HYDCOP application on smart phones of all officers and staff of Hyderabad City. The officers on the field operations/jobs can capture the data from the crime scene/place of work, update the same into the various applications, analyse and process the data and obtain analytical reports online on their mobile phones in real time while at work in the field.
The HYDCOP, a mobile technology application platform will revolutionize the way Hyderabad City Police works and will enable and empower every frontline police officers right up to the constables in terms of input the data for every activity performed, accessing and analysing the centralized information that enables the faster decision making process through the use of mobile and IoT technology and promote SMART POLICING. The use of the technology is expected to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of every police officer deployed in the field. This will be a game changer for Hyderabad City Police in transforming themselves into smart cops and smart organisation enhancing the citizen’s living standards and the standards of Public Safety & Security in Hyderabad City on par with any Global City.
Following are the benefits of the application
Improved Visible Policing: By geo-tagging of approximately 4000 point books (Beat Points) of Hyderabad city, improves the Beats and Patrol management process with minimal manual interventions, improved monitoring by senior officers. Now, its mandatory to the patrol officers to visit the assigned point books and to update the visiting remarks through GPS enabled mobile phones/tabs.
Improved surveillance over Criminals, leading crime prevention: Alerts and Information are received by the front-line police officers through Jail Release Management System (JRMS) as and when any repeat offender is released from prisons. Information & alerts will help the front-line offices for putting appropriate actions in-place to increase surveillance on the repeat offenders as part of crime prevention measures.
All the Hyderabad based repeat offenders (around 3500 offenders) resident locations have been geo-tagged for periodical visits by the front-line police officers as part of crime prevention activity. The attendance of these offenders have been recorded automatically with their status update through the system, helps in providing their geo location and presence in the city.
Faster Emergency Response: By integrating the Dial -100 system with HYDCOP mobile application, it enables to monitor the Dial-100 emergency calls, response time and action taken on the incidents reported from the field. The response time to attend emergencies has been improved significantly through this system.
Behavioural change during the citizen contact: One of the important Third Eye Services in HYDCOP provide the front line officers to verify the antecedents’ details of any suspect / citizen instantly from the database thus avoiding the traditional method of verification by taking the suspect / citizens to the police station and causing undue hardship to the law abiding citizens.
Cycle time reduction in Investigation Process: HYDCOP is able to reduce the cycle time in investigation process, where the investigation officer’s requirements to know the details of the towers and CCTV cameras near the crime scene by using Towers & Cams service in HYDCOP application.
Crime and Criminal Analysis : The multiple Apps within HYDCOP provides the crime incidents and criminal information, it has the ability to analyse the past history and present status about the offenders and suspects for making timely decisions to have better control on them and avert any major future incidents. To name a few critical Apps that are critical as part of the investigation and prosecution point of view to generate evidences:
- Crime Mapping – The crime incident has occurred any time, it is geo-mapped with the coordinates about the date/time, place, type and modus operandi (MO) details on the map. This provides the past history of crime incidents area/MO/type wise information for analysis purpose.
- Cams – Any video surveillance cameras at the crime area or nearby places will help to establish the evidences
- Look-out Notices – This information will be helpful to understand any notices issued on the offender / suspect to ease out the investigation process.
Commissioner of Police
Hyderabad City
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