SOS: Kochi City Police to respond in 6 minutes

Kochi | Saturday | 20th July, 2019

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Toby Antony ByExpress News ServiceKOCHI: The Kochi City Police have set a promising target of six minutes quick response time for reaching the person who makes a distress call by dialling 100 or 112. To achieve the target, the police vehicles are now equipped with Mobile Data Terminal (MDT) technology so that cops can attend any emergency in Kochi city limits. According to S T Suresh Kumar, ACP Control Room, when an emergency call is received, the alert is passed through MDT to all police control room vehicles located close to the place from the distress call. “MDT is designed for providing immediate information to the Control Room vehicles. After attending calls through MDT, each movement of the vehicle is tracked from the Control Room and specific information is provided..