Mumbai’s Government Railway Police (GRP) is developing an application which would enable geolocation tagging of each accidental death case within the jurisdiction of the Mumbai Railways. Those will help the police to identify accident Hotspots so that the police and railways could identify the reasons for deaths and plug in the loopholes.
A GRP official said that until now, in case of a mishap, the police would go to the spot and then note down details of the place based on the nearby landmarks and pole details where the mishap took place, but once the geolocation tagging of each incident is taken, then the authorities would have a pin point location and they can identify hotspots where mishaps are frequently taking place and then identify the reasons leading to the mishaps so that solutions to avert such mishaps can be derived.
"App is being developed as a long term thing. This app will primarily be useful for police. The places where accidents or injuries are taking place such as tracks or platforms, those details will be captured in the app. Aim is to capture geolocation of the places where mishaps are taking place. This will help the authorities to identify accident Hotspots. Location of each accident or injury incident within the railways will be taken in the application data. Work on the application is almost 90 percent completed and it would be used by all 17 railway police stations within the jurisdiction of Mumbai GRP," the officer said.
The GRP also plans to make this app available for citizens in the later stage.
"There have been instances wherein people would visit railway police stations to check if anyone who is missing from their family is found by the railway police in any mishap. We have plans that details of accidents and injured persons in railway mishap would be put in the application on a real time basis so that citizens can access that particular section in the app and check if the description matches with any of their family members. This will reduce the time to trace the family of the mishap victim," the officer said.
