Bhubaneswar: In addition to 51 mobile patrolling parties over 3,000 policemen have been deployed in Bhubaneswar Urban Police District (UPD) for peaceful polling in 1132 booths in the upcoming General Elections on May 25 which include five Vidhan Sabha seats.
According to an official press note from the Media Cell of DCP, Bhubaneswar, the Commissionerate Police and Odisha Space Application Center (ORSAC) have developed two mobile applications —Police Patrolling & Booth Monitoring System (PPBMS) and Vehicle Tracking System (VTS) for efficient execution of its role by the police during polling and helpful to the public for exercising their franchise.
Through this application, the location of the patrolling units can be monitored during the polling period and sent to the required location immediately in case of emergency.
Besides, through this application, the staff deployed in the booth can directly provide the control room with the current status of the booth such as Polling status, the number of voters waiting in the queue, and in case of disruption, they can immediately provide complete information with photos or videos.
Routes are pre-defined for mobile parties to patrol and any deviation from that route will generate an off-route alert on the Dashboard in the Control Room.
The PPBMS and VTS are web and GIS-based applications which has been developed for tracking and monitoring police vehicles displayed for election from the control room for Commissionerate Police.
It includes polling booth live updates which will be reflected on the dashboard Mobile app-based alerts, incidents and SOS messages can be sent to nearby mobile parties and control rooms.
A geodatabase has been prepared using ORSAC georeferenced cadastral level maps and ortho images for the location of booths, pre-defined boundaries of mobile parties and boundaries of police stations.
The PPBMS & VTS App features include: 1. Real-time Tracking of Patrolling Units; 2. Route Monitoring; 3. Live Polling Updates; 4. Hourly Voter Count; 5. Timely Voters Queue Count; 6. Incident Reporting with Image and Videography; 7. Alerts and SoS facility in extreme situations; 8. Booth location, Ward, Village and Police Station Boundaries; 9. Location sharing by police personnel from the incident site; and 10. Navigation facility on Map to the incident site.
