HYDERABAD: Telangana IT minister KT Rama Rao on Wednesday directed senior state police officers to explore the possibility of using drones as the first responders for improvement of women’s security.
Speaking at the launch of Telangana State Police Public Safety Integrated Operations Centre & Data Centre in Cyberabad police commissionerate, he said that the moment the SOS button is pressed, the drone should go to the crime scene from the department as first responder and later the police can reach the crime spot at the earliest. He advised the police to use drones in select places after obtaining nod from civil aviation authorities.
Recalling the recent incident of Abids constable Babji running to clear traffic to pave way for the movement of an ambulance, the minister asked police, health and other departments to create a system for a traffic-free route.
The newly-inaugurated centre is equipped with video walls for real-time monitoring, emergency response systems for dial 100 and Hawk Eye app and a war room.
“The facility is developed using distributive technologies such as scalable video platform, big-data driven insights and scalable data lake, computer vision and facial recognition, IoT integration and data correlation, machine learning—recommendation engine, geo-spatial analytics and cyber security,” the state police said in a press release.