GPS fitted on 30 Mumbai police vehicles not functioning

Control room failed to trace patrolling vehicles despite GIS and GPS

PTI | March 4, 2011



The Global Positioning System (GPS) installed in about 30 vehicles of Mumbai police was found to be not functioning when the police control room was unable to trace them during a recent inspection.

The new police commissioner Arup Patnaik found out the problem during his inspection of the control room early this week.

He examined the working system there, including the computers that track police vehicles fitted with GPS technology.

"I sought to know why some vehicles on patrolling duty could not be traced in the computers despite GPS and Geographic Information System (GIS) systems fitted on them. I was told the equipment on these vehicles are not functioning due to some technical problems," Patnaik said.

"I ordered that the contractor concerned should immediately ensure that these systems start functioning. I don't know since when they were not working," he added.

The GPS and GIS are space-based global navigation satellite systems that provide reliable location and time information of the vehicle it is fitted with.

City police's 500 vehicles--vans and jeeps-- have been fitted with the GPS and the GIS systems so that the movements of the vehicles can be tracked and could be diverted to the locations required in case of emergency.
 

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