Punjab police is focusing on the need of technology-enabled functioning and response to provide a safe environment in the State.
State Director General of Police Sumdeh Saini, presiding over two-day Envisioning Workshop for conceptualising most suitable and practical Safe City Solution for the cities of ludhiana and Amritsar at Punjab Police Headquarters, said that Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal has categorically directed for making our most populous and prestigious cities ludhiana and Amritsar most safe by devising state-of-the-art safe city solution on the pattern of major metropolitan cities all over the world.
“State police have identified terrorism and street crimes, the two most important areas for focus and to ensure zero tolerance for these,” said Saini.
He said that the purpose of conducting this workshop with the assistance of a team of experts from Microsoft was the experience of the company of successfully implementing the Safe City Solutions in New York Police Department (NYPD), which has now emerged as a benchmark and gold standard for such Safe City Solutions across the world.
ADGP (Security) Dinkar Gupta said that Envisioning Workshop for conceptualizing most suitable and practical Safe City Solution for the cities of ludhiana and Amritsar was attended by a large number of police officers working at the Headquarters and in the field.
“During the deliberations in workshop, suggestions and recommendations emerged on the best options available for a Safe City Solution for ludhiana and Amritsar and most importantly these were most suited to the Indian context and requirements,” he said.