Chhattisgarh Police has launched a single emergency number ‘112’ for the citizens on which they can dial during emergencies needing police help, reporting fire incident or calling the Ambulance.
A trial of the emergency number was done in the city on Monday.
At present, the facility is being launched in 11 of the 27 districts of the State and soon will be extended to other States, official sources said.
A provision has also been made that citizens could also register complaints about the services through social media platform sources, sources informed.
Now with only a single number ‘112’ , the citizens have to keep it in their memory and police staff had been directed to attend the call and listen to citizens patiently and act immediately.
Additional Director General of Police (ADGP), Planning, Management and Technical Services, RK Vij, Inspector General of Police (IGP), Raipur Range, Pradeep Gupta and Raipur Superintendent of Police Ambreesh Mishra the other day took a meeting of all the gazetted officers in the Police Department and Station House Officers (SHOs) of various police stations of the city and apprised them about the new number for emergency services.