The DK Police are all set to experiment with the GIS application to oversee and monitor the security arrangements to the forthcoming Zilla/Taluk Panchayat elections to be held in the district on 19/12/2005. For this all the ground work has been done by the NRDMS (Natural Resource Development and Management Society) centre and the Police personnel manning the Computer cell in the district SPs office.
The digital map of the district available with the NRDMS centre has been taken and to this all information related to the Police Security scheme has been integrated using the Arc view software. Thus information like sensitivity of booths, stationing of striking forces, area demarcation of sector mobiles, deployment of personnel to booths, telephone numbers…etc have all been fed and linked with the map.
On the day of election, the software will be installed in the District Control Room as well as in the Temporary Control Room that will be opened at Puttur to monitor the election process of Puttur subdivision. The software will be of great help to the control room staff as it will give them a better perspective of the field level arrangements. They will be able to see on the map where exactly the booths are located, where the Striking forces are located, what is the distance between the nearest PS and any village…etc. All this information will be available to them on the click of buttons. By this they can analyse things better and relay information over the wireless to field level officers who will be engaged in the conduct of elections. For example, if the control room receives any information of trouble in any of the booths in the district, they can within in minutes identify the booth on the map and confirm to which sector and Police Station it belongs to, what is the deployment available at the booth and if reinforcement is to be sent which is the nearest striking force/sector mobile available...etc. Based on this they can give necessary instructions to the concerned.
The same software will also be available on the SPs laptop with which he can have full picture of the whole poll related arrangements of the district even while being at any corner of the district at any point of time. Thus this would help in better decision making as well as effective implementation of instructions.
Though this is being done on an experimental basis, if found useful, can be improved upon and used for variuos other purposes in the future.
The persons who have made this possible;
Ugrappa, NRDMS, Zilla Panchayath Mangalore.
Sudheer Kumar, NRDMS, Zilla Panchayath Mangalore.
Gururaj Jadhav M.D., Computer Section, District Police Office Mangalore.
Manoj Kumar, Puttur Rural Police Station.
Manjunath, Computer Section, District Police Office Mangalore.
Sunil Kuamar C.H., Computer Section, District Police Office Mangalore.
Pradeep K.N., Computer Section, District Police Office Mangalore.
Sadashiva, District Wireless Control Room, Mangalore.
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