Having received positive response to its app that registers First Information Reports (FIRs) for vehicle thefts online, Delhi Police is planning a full-fledged rollout of its app after a successful dummy run.
Fifteen cases were lodged since the app’s dry run, which began on Thursday and Delhi Police top brass are planning a grand event to officially launch it. Efforts are being made to get the app unveiled by Home Minister Rajnath Singh.
“We have registered 15 online FIRs till Sunday afternoon and the system has responded well. It has been a smooth affair so far and we will be able to launch it very soon,” a senior police official said.
Delhi Police is the first in the world to implement this provision, which allows online registration of FIRs in motor vehicle theft cases and furnishes an ‘Untraced Report’ duly accepted by the relevant court.
“This is a gamechanger not only in the history of Indian Police but the world over as online FIR has been thought and deliberated for long. It took us almost a year to conceive it,” Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Yadav said.
“Most challenging was the court module. We had to make several presentations before High Court’s e-committee as well as the District Courts and sync our systems with theirs. Another major step was getting e-Court notified in every district court for this purpose (the ACMM courts),” he added.
On recovery of stolen vehicles, the details would be matched with centralised databases resulting in speedy disposal of cases.