EMN
Dimapur, May 6
The Nagaland police’s SMS-based Vehicle Monitoring System has bagged a national-level award for smart policing instituted by the Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).
The award for Best Practice in the category of Road Safety and Traffic Management was presented to the Nagaland police by Minister for State for Home Affairs Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary in a function held at the FICCI auditorium in New Delhi on Friday.
FICCI President Harshavardhan Neotia, former Home Secretary GK Pillai, and Joint Secretary for Home (police modernization) TVSN Prasad were among those present during the occasion.
The jury for the awards was presided over by former Home Secretary GK Pillai. Former Special DG of the Central Industrial Security Force Manjari Jaruhar, former DGP of Meghalaya N Ramachandran, director of India Foundation Alok Bansal, and director of the Government Advisory Services Milan Narendra were the other members of the jury.
Nagaland police was among the six state police establishments selected, organizers informed in a note on Friday.
The SMS-based Vehicle Monitoring System was conceived by the police department and executed by Ben Imchen, a postgraduate from IIT Delhi and proprietor of Elysium Enterprises.
“The project was launched in April last year and (had) resulted in substantial reduction in the theft of four wheelers across the state. Also, more than 100 vehicles have been recovered so far using the application,” the organizers said.
The app provides an easy platform for policemen and citizens to report vehicle theft and alert the various field-formations of police across the state through SMS. It also provides an easy and instant access to police to the various official repositories of vehicular data that enable police personnel in the field to verify the genuineness of vehicle documents in seconds.
