Chennai: 102 cops booked for traffic violations

CHENNAI: It’s not just regular denizens, even the gatekeepers of law and order are found to flout rules. At least 102 police personnel have been booked for flouting traffic rules across the city since last week.
At the launch of the app DIGICOP – 2.0 on Friday, city police commissioner A K Vishwanathan said police have initiated action against the complaints which were uploaded by people on the traffic app, GCTP citizen service, that was launched last week.Action was being taken against everyone, including policemen, he said. ADGP headquarters Seema Agarwal was also present at the event. Through this app, police have received 131 complaints and booked 114 offences.
The commissioner said DIGICOP app has been downloaded by 72,155 people since its launch on February 6, while 4,086 people have checked the IMEI, the unique number that all smartphones have, in the app. As many as 8,311 complaints of stolen mobile phones have been uploaded on the app, of which, 1,277 phones have been recovered so far, he said.
The previous version had options like details about stolen vehicles, ‘know your police station’, where a resident can access contact numbers of police stations and follow the traffic condition in the city. These features have been updated in the latest version.
The app also enables a buyer to verify if the purchased second-hand mobile phone is a genuine piece and not stolen. A person can enter the IMEI number of the second-hand phone in the app to check if the cellphone was a stolen one. “When mobile phones are recovered, police don’t know to whom the gadget belongs to. Police upload the IMEI numbers of those mobile phones in the app,” said a senior police officer.
The new version of the app has the crime and criminal tracking network systems (CCTNS) where a person can lodge a complaint without coming to the police station and can also check the status of the complaint by entering the FIR or CSR number that will be generated once the complaint is lodged. Soon, the data containing IMEI numbers of mobile phones stolen across the state will be uploaded.
The app is available on Google Play Store and Apple iOS.