Beware traffic offenders! The traffic cops will soon be armed with Blackberry mobiles, especially designed to track down vehicle details from the Regional Transport Office database to punish violators on the spot.
Sources said that home minister RR Patil has given a green signal to the demand by Nagpur city police. Subsequently, the city police has sent a requisition for 100 such mobiles. These will be provided to the traffic cops, giving them access to the large central database of vehicles, drivers and offenders.
The project has been already launched in Pune on an experimental basis, and it is for the government and police to take a decision on expanding it to other parts of the state, said a source in city police.
At present, every day the city traffic police catch over 400 motorists for various traffic violations, and many of them break traffic regulations very frequently. However, there is no way the traffic cops can find a person's previous violations.
Now, checking the previous traffic violation records would be very easy for Nagpur's traffic cops, said senior PI (traffic) Ashok Dhotre.
Under the project, complete information about the vehicle and its owner would be instantly accessible by policemen using Blackberry mobile phones. With a few key strokes on the Blackberry, past violations by the vehicle would come up on screen. The phones will be connected through a network with the database of the motor vehicles department, enabling the traffic police to access details of vehicles, their owners and the drivers.
Once the vehicle or license number of the offender is fed into the handset, complete details regarding the owner of the vehicle, his license number and details like whether the vehicle was involved in any other offence, could be obtained from the server, he said.
"Information about traffic violations will be saved on a computer server on a daily basis and instantly passed on to the policeman. It will help us in keeping the roads safe," Dhotre explained.
The project will also have wireless printing technology, which will allow challans to be served to the accused, said the sources, adding that the receipts will give the details of the violation committed by the offender.
This secure login-based application will also assists in determining if the offender has a pending fine against his vehicle. Traffic offenders would not be able to escape by providing false addresses as the Blackberry will flash the full details of the offender at the touch of a button, he said.
These Blackberry mobiles will be provided to assistant police sub-inspectors and above, with each zone getting at least 18 such mobiles.
Sources said that home minister RR Patil has given a green signal to the demand by Nagpur city police. Subsequently, the city police has sent a requisition for 100 such mobiles. These will be provided to the traffic cops, giving them access to the large central database of vehicles, drivers and offenders.
The project has been already launched in Pune on an experimental basis, and it is for the government and police to take a decision on expanding it to other parts of the state, said a source in city police.
At present, every day the city traffic police catch over 400 motorists for various traffic violations, and many of them break traffic regulations very frequently. However, there is no way the traffic cops can find a person's previous violations.
Now, checking the previous traffic violation records would be very easy for Nagpur's traffic cops, said senior PI (traffic) Ashok Dhotre.
Under the project, complete information about the vehicle and its owner would be instantly accessible by policemen using Blackberry mobile phones. With a few key strokes on the Blackberry, past violations by the vehicle would come up on screen. The phones will be connected through a network with the database of the motor vehicles department, enabling the traffic police to access details of vehicles, their owners and the drivers.
Once the vehicle or license number of the offender is fed into the handset, complete details regarding the owner of the vehicle, his license number and details like whether the vehicle was involved in any other offence, could be obtained from the server, he said.
"Information about traffic violations will be saved on a computer server on a daily basis and instantly passed on to the policeman. It will help us in keeping the roads safe," Dhotre explained.
The project will also have wireless printing technology, which will allow challans to be served to the accused, said the sources, adding that the receipts will give the details of the violation committed by the offender.
This secure login-based application will also assists in determining if the offender has a pending fine against his vehicle. Traffic offenders would not be able to escape by providing false addresses as the Blackberry will flash the full details of the offender at the touch of a button, he said.
These Blackberry mobiles will be provided to assistant police sub-inspectors and above, with each zone getting at least 18 such mobiles.
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