Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij on Tuesday said the Emergency Response Support System (ERSS) Dial 112 service will be completed in the State by December 30 and thereafter the emergency police and other services will be available in any area of the State within a span of 15 to 20 minutes.
Presiding over a review meeting of the Police Department in Panchkula, Vij said that for the smooth functioning of the system, a new building has been constructed at a cost of about Rs 40 crore and C-DAC has been given a work order of about Rs 152 crore. As many as 630 new Innova vehicles worth about Rs 94 crore are being purchased under this high-tech project of Haryana Police. For this, about 4,700 employees will be engaged, who will provide effective services to the citizens on time.
The Home Minister said that experts of four languages, including Hindi, English, Punjabi and Haryanavi will be deputed at the Call Centre so that these services reach every citizen of the state. After taking calls from all over the state, it will forward its message to the response team, which will reach the complainant in maximum 15 minutes in urban areas and 20 minutes in rural areas. The process will be backed up in the DGP office and the entire data will also be safe in C-DAC Hyderabad. Any complainant can send his complaint through voice call, message, mail, and web alert and social media in this regard and employees will also be trained in this regard.
Additional Chief Secretary, Home Department Rajeev Arora assured to complete and start this system on time. Earlier, the Director General of Police, Haryana, Manoj Yadav, gave details of ERSS Dial 112 to the Home Minister. He said that with the implementation of this project, the police will immediately reach the crime scene and two vehicles each will be made available in every police station and this will decrease crime in the state.
CRIME RATE DECREASES BY 6 PER CENT IN FIRST 9 MONTHS OF 2020
Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij said that the State has seen a drop of six percent in crime graph in the first 9 months of 2020 in comparison to the same period of 2019. Vij said that 96672 cases were registered between January and September 2020 as compared to 102831 cases during the first 9 months of 2019. He said there has been a decrease in cases of heinous crimes including murder, crimes against women, robbery, dacoity, kidnapping for extortion this year, as compared to last year. Not only this, there was also a decrease in crime in 2019 in comparison to 2018.
The Home Minister said that the state has registered a 17 percent decrease in crime against women while around 88 percent cases of murder have been traced out. Similarly, the number of rape cases has decreased by 13.57 percent this year and more than 93 percent rape cases have been solved. The kidnapping incidents in the state have come down by 20.73 percent.
He said that under the NDPS Act, a total of 2240 cases were registered with the recovery of 339 kg of opium, 208 kg of charas, 7319 kg of ganja, 10130 kg of poppy
husk, 31 kg of heroin, and 11 kg of smack.
In addition, the police have recovered 1241 pistols, 37 revolvers, and 2463 cartridges. Vij said that from January to September, the police have busted 198 criminal gangs and arrested 182 most wanted criminals. Also, 2806 missing persons have been recovered and handed over to their parents and shelter homes.