Trivandrum City Police (iSafe)

An app for public safety from Thiruvananthapuram city police.

Winner of Social Media for Empowerment Award 2014 in social apps by Digital Empowerment foundation. Source : http://goo.gl/WQhQpb

iSafe won the award for ‘Best Use of Mobile Technology’ at Elets Knowledge Exchange Awards 2015

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Thiruvananthapuram City Police (TCP) app is an innovative step from Thiruvananthapuram City Police to enhance the quality of service provided to the public. Various Innovative road safety measures have been adopted by the Trivandrum city traffic police for ensuring the citizens safety. This app will help people to be aware of various traffic rules, penalties and report any violations of laws they encounter. This app will also help people to connect emergency services like control room, ambulance, hospitals and fire service in and around Trivandrum city. It provides directions to the nearest police station from their current location. Additionally, new features include iSafe, integration with WhatsApp.

The new feature ‘iSafe’ has been included in this version as a part of empowering women safety in Thiruvananthapuram City. This provides a panic button which can be used when an emergency or panic situation happens. iSafe is a new feature in TCP application which help Trivandrum residents to seek emergency police help in panic situations.

With a long press (7 seconds) of the volume down key, an alert is sent to the police control room along with the location, subscriber id and IMEI number of the mobile. The control room can track the person in need of help in real time and will send police force for immediate help.

Integration with WhatsApp can help the public to report or Complaint an Offence directly to Major City Police Officials such as IG, SP ,Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner of Thiruvananthapuram City Police

Users with android wear can start panic button by say "Start Panic" or "Launch Panic" to android wear device

TCP app features:

1: iSafe

2. Report Violations and Crimes

3: View nearest Police Station

4: Complaint or Report via WhatsApp

5: Detailed Violations and Fines

6: Emergency Services

7: Safety tips

8: Road safety measures

9: Speed Limit in City

10. Adding emergency contacts

11.User can send quick message to control room on panic situation

12 .Automatic sms and sms based tracking of user by emergency contacts during panic situations.

13. Andriod wear support added for sending panic alerts.

Disclosures of Personal Information:

*Personal Information will be used only for the purposes of providing services and performing its various obligations.You may need to disclose and share Personal Information when it is necessary to exercise the legal rights or defend against legal claims, criminal investigations, judicial matters or in prevention, investigation, detection, prosecution of criminal activities or matters related to national security.

*All data Collected will be safe and secure with the City Police Records.

Check out official website for more info on Trivandrum City Police http://www.tvmcitypolice.gov.in/index.html

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