In an initiative to track traffic offenders in Gurgaon, traffic policemen might be taking the perfect shot with help of cell phones, the next time one jumps a red light. The pictures will then be uploaded onto a police website.
The latest weapon of Mukesh Kumar of the Gurgaon Police against crime is his cell phone. Over the past one month, instead of running after traffic offenders, Kumar has been simply clicking their photos.
"It's effective. I just quietly click snaps. It helps when the violator is a politician or one of those guys who'll keep calling our superiors. This spares us a lot of headaches," Kumar said.
Kumar's photos are instantly uploaded on the police website, along with hundreds of others from his mates on the force. They're digitally stamped with the date, time and location of crime and are used by the police officials to issue challans.
Fifty police men in Gurgaon now have the Nokia E 5 phones and use them with great relish. Similar schemes with Blackberry phones had been implemented earlier in Bangalore and Kerala. But the Gurgaon effort is slightly different.
Nokia Director Suresh Vedula said, "The Gurgaon force didn't have too many personnel authorised to issue a challan on the spot. So we decided to go in for a server system, where photos can be stored and paper challans issued eventually."
There is one tiny loophole though. What if your car is photographed. But it was borrowed and driven by a friend? Who pays up then?
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