Now in Gurgaon, call cops by SMS, complain online

Gurgaon Police on Tuesday launched a “citizen-centric automated online policing system” that they claimed is superior to the Delhi Police’s, reports Sanjeev K Ahuja.

Gurgaon Police on Tuesday launched a “citizen-centric automated online policing system” that they claimed is superior to the Delhi Police’s. You can now register your complaints online without visiting a police station, expect to get a printed copy of your FIR instead of a handwritten one, and call the police by simply sending them a text message from your mobile phone.

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Gurgaon top cop Mohindar Lal announced the tech upgrades in his force on the first anniversary of the commissionerate policing system in the township.

Complaints can be registered — and the status of old complaints checked — on the web site www.gurgaonpolice.net. Apart from calling the conventional police emergency number 100, citizens can also send an SMS to 9717595423 to report a crime. The system is already functional, Lal said.

Eighty-three of the force’s 200 vehicles are GPS-fitted; the rest will have GPS in a month’s time, Lal said. “All major crossings are being put on online surveillance... through CCTV cameras with controls at police HQ,” he added.