Just to improve the response time of the state police along with making quick response to any other SOS during natural calamity etc through `Dial-100’, a five member team of the State government visited United States of America (USA) to take first hand account of the `Dial-911’ used there.
According to an official communiqué of the Home Department, a five member team led by advisor to the Home Department, Venkat Changawali, also comprising of Principal Secretary (Home), Dewasheesh Panda, home secretary, Kamal Saksena, ADG (traffic), Anil Agarwal and IG (women power line) Navniet Sikera, visited USA between August 29 till September 11 last.
The release said that the above team visited San Fransisco, Austin, New York and other cites, and had studied the control room system prevalent there. Panda, who was one of the member of the team claimed that they had undated themselves with the computer technology and software used there and very soon, they would adopt similar system in the State which would improve the response time of all kind of emergency services including that in the police department to make quick response to the scene of crime or incident.