SAMARTH to be used for quick policing on poll day
Stating that the SAMARTH (Security Arrangement Mapping Analysis Response Tracking Hub) mobile app is very useful for taking immediate measures and handling law and order issues in the general elections to be held on May 13 in the State, Chief Electoral O cer Mukesh Kumar Meena directed all SPs, CPs and sector o cers to use the app.
He congratulated and appreciated Bapatla Superintendent of Police Vakul Jindal for developing SAMARTH.
The SAMARTH app, developed by the District IT Core Department, was launched by the District SP on April 22. Mr. Jindal explained about the features of the app to Mr. Meena on April 26.
Mr. Jindal told The Hindu that the SAMARTH was created for smart and quick policing during the general elections. SAMARTH is a powerful, robust and real-time application for district police o cers to track personnel locations, identify problematic and common polling stations, call the control room directly from the app, and immediately reach police forces in troubled areas.
How the app works
The department enters all the police force mobile numbers in the app, and the sta install the app on their mobiles.
Thus, the police o cials track the personnel’s realtime location.
The details of the polling stations in the district are clearly included so that critical and normal polling stations can be easily identied. By entering the polling station number, the police forces can reach through navigation. The higher o cials from the headquarters can call and interact with the police forces at the polling station through the app.
If any untoward incident occurs at any polling centre during the election, the o cer in charge of the polling station will press the SOS button on the app, and the information will immediately reach the control room.
Then, the o cer will be indicated in red on the app so that the police can easily reach the o cer’s location in the nearby special striking party or mobile party.
The app has an option to send messages simultaneously to all 2,000 policemen from the home guard level to the additional SP level in the district; even if the mobile does not have an internet signal.