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S.M.A.R.T.
• S. Strict and Sensitive
M. Modern and Mobile
A. Alert and Accountable
R. Reliable and Responsive
T. Techno savvy and Trained
Introduction
• Modern cities are witnessing integration at variouslevels, and thus the need for a modernised, integratedand secured system. The requirements of the modernpolice forces have been appropriately captured byhonourable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi inthe word “SMART”.
• He emphasised that a professionally efficient,technologically enabled, socially sensitive policeupholds the “rule of law” and human rights in allsituations and is also engaged optimally with thecommunity.
Introduction
• India is the one of the fastest growing
economies in the world.
• In order to maintain this esteemed position
we should thus focus on maintaining safety
and security of our citizens, businesses and
critical infrastructures.
Introduction
• India will have 100 smart cities in the
coming years. SMART policing is thus an
essential requirement. This has become all
the more important in the light of increase in
organised crime in urban spaces and the
growing nexus between terrorist organisations
the world over.
Introduction
• SMART Policing for Smart Cities explores
the possibility of shifting from traditional
police systems to a SMART policing
structure.
• It further highlights the use of modern
technology in solving important and
complex security issues of the country.
Introduction
• Smart cities are constantly evolving withconnectedness in cyber space between people,buildings, transport, energy, water, communications,commercial operations, media and the multitude ofactivities cities generate.
• This brings in a different threat horizon that has tobe monitored for business operations, safety andcontinuity of activities.
• Cyber events — whether accidental from failures tointegrate rapidly changing technologies orintentional from individuals, terrorists or nationstates — are rapidly creating disruptions anduncertainty.
Introduction
• The threats so created in smart cities impactcitizens physically by affecting theinfrastructure and the health of the citizensthemselves.
• They can have economic impact in case offrauds, or attacks on utilities such as powerand water. Attacks can also affect citizensemotionally as many things can be lost to theattack.
• An attack can even be made to the culture andsociety as a whole.
Introduction
• S.M.A.R.T. policing is an attempt to explore
the risks associated with policing in smart
cities.
• A new way of policing is defined through a
set of five principles – strict and sensitive,
modern and mobile, alert and accountable,
reliable and responsive, techno-savvy and
trained.
Strict and Sensitive
Strict and Sensitive
• This principle emphasizes the partnerships
that can achieve long-term benefits for the
police force.
• Police force needs to be strict while
enforcing the rules of the land while being
sensitive to the social sentiments of the
general public.
Modern and Mobile
• Police needs to increase its outreach and
efficiency by adopting newer technologies
and means of mobility.
Alert and Accountable
Alert and Accountable
• Alertness can be increased by strengthening
intelligence network and in-depth analysis
of information gathered.
• The smart police have to be accountable to
citizens and to the government for its
actions.
Reliable and Responsive
• In smart cities, police needs to be more
responsive and should act on any input
information from various mediums such as
phone calls, emails, IoT devices, panic
buttons, etc.
• With improved responsiveness and effective
actions, reliability on police increases
dramatically.
Techno-Savvy and Trained
• This principle highlights utilizing modern
IT applications that are more accessible by
public. This helps the police in crowd
sourcing data through the public and
increasing the intelligence in case of attack.
• The police needs to be trained enough to
analyze and make use of the information
collected through various means
Defining smart cities
with smart police• Policing has been around for centuries and the tasks of
police have not changed much over the millennia. Thegrowth in policing can be seen in three stages:
• 1. Informal policing, where all members of a societyequally share the responsibility for providingprotection and keeping order
• 2. Transitional policing occurs when police functionsare informally assigned to particular members of thesociety
• 3. Formal policing, where specific members of thecommunity assume formal responsibility forprotection and social control
Traditional Policing
• In early historical times, there were people to ensure the safety ofcitizens and property, but a well-organized police force does not seemto have existed. In ancient Egypt, early guards and watchmen mayhave been, at least in part, purely local answers to securityconcerns. They may have been employed by private persons andlocal institutions.
• During the Middle and New Kingdoms, however, a nationwidepolice force grew out of the semi-military units securing theborders.
• As the population increased and crime began to rise, steps toimprove policing were taken across the world. From 1066 to the1300s in England, police services were provided through thefrankpledge system. Under this system, citizens were appointed withthe responsibility of maintaining order and controlling crime.
• During the 1700s, the foundations of modern policing were laid.The Bow Street Runners in England was the first group paidthrough public funds that emphasized crime prevention in additionto crime investigation and apprehension of criminals.
Modern Policing
• With the passage of time, population increasedand so did sophisticated crimes and criminals.Blue collar crimes, profit-driven crimes andorganized crimes rose in the 20th century.
• The focus of policing was not only to prosecutethe individual but also to prevent the crime.Efforts were made to provide Information,Communication and Technology (ICT)solutions to the police force and significantlyincrease their efficiency.
Modern Policing
• A range of technologies is used to gather, store,retrieve, process, analyze, and transmitinformation. Relevant ICT may range fromsystems installed in public environments overPC-based systems in offices, to systems installed incars and mobile systems used on-site.
• Modern policing includes the use of CCTVsurveillance, radio frequency identification, e-identification, online verification for passport,etc. Modern police is dependent on ICTsystems to be more efficient and effective.
Smart Policing
• Smart policing is important in cities of future,i.e., smart cities.
• Smart cities extensively use ICT for all servicesand provide seamless transactions to citizensfrom one department to other.
• Greater ICT usage increases the risk tocitizens’ information, governments’ data andbusiness’ plans. In a smart city, policing is notlimited to safeguarding infrastructure but alsoincludes safeguarding data and information.
Security Risks In Smart Cities
• Smart cities are going to be the reality for
municipalities around the world.
• These cities will use communication networks,
highly distributed wireless sensor technology,
and intelligent management systems to solve
current and future challenges, and create new
services.
Changing lives of citizens in smart
cities
• Smart citizens are interconnected via smartphones and gadgets. Smart energy meters,security devices and smart appliances arebeing used in many cities. Homes, cars, publicvenues and other social systems are now on thepath to full connectivity, known as the“Internet of Things (IoT).”
• Intelligent transportation, public and private,will access a web of interconnected data fromGPS location to weather and traffic updates.Integrated systems will aid public safety,emergency responders and disaster recovery.
Changing lives of citizens in smart
cities
• Smart cities are vulnerable to risk due to theirinterconnected nature. Attacks can be made toany point of the infrastructure and network. Inaddition to the primary network, the city datacenters catering to the various domains wouldalso be open for exploitation in the event of asecurity attack.
• Numerous cyber attacks in the cyber domain havebeen launched in recent years against thecomputing infrastructure of various governments.These have been aimed at undermining thefunctioning of information systems, theft ofinformation, or denial of service.
Risks in Smart Cities
Risks In Smart Cities
• Traditionally, risks have been associated with thephysical damage caused by the attack.
• However, with emergence of integrated IT environment, anyattack on smart city or citizens of smart city, the attack isnot just of physical nature.
• A modern Indian city embodies people, knowledge,resources, finances, democratic and political aspects,and cultural values. These constituent elements can beclassified as asset groups or capital, including intellectual,social, technical, environmental, cultural, leisure andfinancial capital. Attack can be made on any constituentof the city and can impact socially, economically andemotionally in addition to physical damage.
Risks in Smart Cities
• Risks include illegal access to information, andattacks causing physical disruptions in serviceavailability.
• As digital citizens become increasingly connectedwith data available about their location andactivities, privacy seems to disappear.
• Privacy protecting systems that gather dataand trigger emergency responses when neededare technological challenges that go hand-in-hand with the continuous security concerns.
Risks in Smart Cities
Therefore, the smart citizen today is under threat ofrisk and attack at four levels:
• Physical
• Economical
• Cultural
• Emotional
• For the smart city, the technical target and therelated consequence, such as injury to property,personality, life and limb, or emotional damage,must be viewed jointly and, in turn, mapped to thenature of the motivated offender.
Risks in Smart Cities
• In the context of transportation systems, motivatedoffenders may include juveniles, thieves, vandals,stalkers and domestic abuse perpetrators. Themotivations range from boredom to malice to profit toinsanity. Instrumented transportation systems offersuitable targets for a motivated offender.
• This privacy violation is a major security risk. Oncemotivated offenders have a profile and location onthe victim/target at all times, they know when thatvictim/target would be most vulnerable to a physicalattack.
Risks in Smart Cities
• Catastrophic failures may also occur because
highly connected systems can suddenly fail
from a critical point coming under pressure, or
from a convergence of operations that create a
new central point of weakness or a vulnerable
target for malevolent action against the
company’s or government’s operation.
• New threats to systems controls in smart grid,
smart water supply/distribution or smart
transportation, etc., widen the threat spectrum
beyond data protection and software failures.
Risks in Smart Cities
• Locational data can be a key security concern.Many people set the GPS originating address fromtheir homes. Access to this data reveals that homelocation. If the automobile is away from home, thathome may be a better target for burglary – a case ofeconomic loss to the citizen.
• Similarly, social media can be used as anamplification platform for attacks. For instance,attackers can increase the impact of an attack bycausing panic in a population. If just one simple attackis real, then a bigger attack can be promoted.
Risks in Smart Cities
• Cultural heritages are fundamental aspects
of our identity and must be transferred to
the next generations in the best possible
condition. Cities need to make efforts to
develop innovative conservation strategies
and integration of the most advanced
technologies to allow their safe, sustainable
and effective use in the context of the smart
management of the city.
S.M.A.R.T. Policing
• The increasing trend of urbanization in India is leading toincreased vulnerability of cities:
• terrorist attacks, crime, social unrest and heightened impact ofnatural disasters are just some of the safety and security issuesthat need to be addressed.
• Growing skyscrapers, increased use of public transportation,multi-tenant buildings, and thousands of people flockingtogether for sports or cultural events mean that large numbersof people are packed in smaller areas in a smart city. Suchdensely packed areas become soft targets for attacks.
• The concept of urban security – protecting citizens andinfrastructure such as airports, data centers, roads and powergrids – takes on vital significance.
• S.M.A.R.T policing deals with various aspects of policing that aresustainable and holistic
S.M.A.R.T. Policing
• There is a huge and unknown attack surface onsmart cities. With so much complexity andinterdependency, it is difficult to know what andhow everything is exposed. Therefore, simpleproblems could have a huge impact due tointerdependency and chain reactions.
• The police needs to evolve continuously andlearn from each attack on the smart city. Therepository of information should be enrichedwith various incidences and should beprogressive in nature.
S.M.A.R.T. PolicingSensitive And Strict
• In a smart city, the police has to be sensitive to the society’s needs and
strict toward the procedures and rules made for a peaceful society.
Smart police should understand the citizen perspective and partner
with social organizations to provide a safer environment.
Partnership With Society
• Community policing has been around for some time in India, but is not
effectively utilized by all departments in all areas. Partnership with
society can be in various forms – rotary clubs, mothers against
drunken driving, schools for inculcating traffic sense in children,
residents to keep an eye on child kidnapping, businesses to help
increase vigilance in market areas, etc. Partnering with society would
improve the public image of police and would also provide eyes and ears to
the police department.
Understanding Citizen Perspective
• In smart cities, police would have to address
the convenience of the citizen and provide
services within a defined turnaround.
• Smart police can run campaigns that
encourage citizen participation, devise
mechanisms for periodic feedback and
processes to incorporate suggestions from the
citizens.
Modern And Mobile
• In smart cities, governments want to deliver betterinfrastructure and services in all domains – education, healthcare, transport, energy, policing and others. Substantial funds arerequired to meet such expectations. The police service, therefore,needs to be modern and mobile to maintain public confidenceand trust in the services it provides.
• Social media
• Police departments are using social media for two basic purposes:disseminating their own messages to the public, and gatheringinformation from social media platforms to prevent and investigatecrimes. Police can use social media to facilitate criminalinvestigations (e.g., observing suspects’ postings on social mediafor self-incriminating comments), be aware of the mood of thepublic during major demonstrations, share importantinformation with the public during times of crisis as well asabout everyday news and events, receive crime tips, and receivecrime reports.
Modern and Mobile
Public Safety Broadband Network
• In the event of crisis, it becomes essential for police
departments to interact with each other and coordinate
their efforts to safeguard citizens. However, in a crisis,
network bandwidth becomes unavailable. Police should be
provided a secure, reliable and dedicated interoperable
network for emergency responders to communicate during
an emergency.
• Dedicated radio spectrum for emergency services should
be allotted and maintained by the police departments.
Modern and Mobile
Mobile Technology
• If officers have mobile devices – such as tablets orsmart phones – they will be able to work moreefficiently. Rather than filling in forms a number oftimes, officers could complete tasks once and submitinformation back to central systems remotely. Theycould also have access to more information while onpatrol, enabling them to make better decisions.
• Multiple state police departments in India areinvesting in mobile technology for their patrollingvehicles.
Modern and mobile
Mobility
• Police should be equipped with appropriatemobility means to respond to situations in anyimpacted area. Given the vertical expansion ofsmart cities and high density of population,police should be able to reach the incidentlocation in minimum timeframe.
• This would mean better vehicles, aerialsurveillance, drones, quad copters, automatedvehicles etc. to be included in the policeinfrastructure as per requirement.
Alert And Accountable
• The key to alertness would be partnershipsamong police departments to increasecoordination of their crime-fightingstrategies.
• It provides a pool of data that can be convertedinto meaningful information. Theaccountability of the police department alsoincreases in a smart city. The police isaccountable for various actions taken bythem to secure the citizens.
Alert And Accountable
Developing a performance culture
• Smart policing requires a performance-tracking system that breaks down top-levelobjectives into clear, measurable targets thatpolicemen at every level must understand,accept, and meet.
• Every team member of the smart police shouldbe encouraged to help the team when itsperformance dips. The culture change in thepolice organization would help them bond andserve the citizens as a collective body.
Alert And Accountable
Partnership with other police departments
• Partnership could be achieved at various levels, suchas the sharing of data, applications, people,intelligence and resources.
• In India, the National Crime Record Bureau(NCRB) is mandated to collect and share data frompolice organizations. NCRB is also implementingCrime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems(CCTNS), which is a mission mode project to trackcriminals through a single system. A single systemwill increase the alertness of police by providingtrack of crime and criminals in other States.
Alert And Accountable
Partnership With Universities And Other Researchers
• Police departments can collaborate with universities,
researchers and criminal justice students to help analyze
data so that it may be more productively utilized.
• The effectiveness of programs and events launched by
police departments can be studied by the students of
universities.
• Another way of collaboration is through guest lectures by
university professors to police officials. Partnership with
universities and researchers would benefit both the police
department and the academia.
Partnership with universities and
other researchers
Dr. M. Borwankar, IPS
Director General http://www.bprd.nic.in/SmartPolice1.aspx
Alert And Accountable
New Organization Structure For Police Departments
• Multiple levels/ hierarchy in Police departmentslead to slow processing and reduce innovationcapacity. There are several advantages of flatterorganization structures in police departments. First,flatter structures tend to experience fewercommunications barriers. Second, they are better atspreading ideas. They also make it easier to establishclear lines of responsibility.
• New organization structures should be proposed forpolice departments to reduce the turnaround time ofpolice processes.
Alert and accountablePublic private partnerships
• The US, the UK and Australia have developed public-privatepartnerships in policing. These include both the policedepartment’s contracting out of policing functions to privateagents, and the development of collaborations between swornpolice and private security agents operating independently in aparticular jurisdiction.
• Retired police officers can be hired as private agents to outsourceactivities such as fingerprinting, issuing of parking tickets, enforcingtraffic violations, doing investigative follow-up work, and preparingaffidavits for police. Back-office work of police agencies can alsobe outsourced to private agents.
• Public-private partnerships create rich opportunities for lawenforcement agencies to leverage their scarce resources towardserving the public more effectively and efficiently.
Reliable And Responsive
• The diversity of safety and security challengesfaced by smart cities means the police force mustplan holistic safeguarding measures.
• Solution providers are moving away from standaloneproducts and systems toward networked solutions,which cover the entire security concept and are morereliable.
• The police force needs to become reliable andresponsive to reduce crimes, improve confidenceand support victims.
Reliable And Responsive
• Multiple input mechanism for emergency responsesystem
• In smart cities, multiple input mechanisms should beavailable to connect with emergency response services ofthe police.
• The input mechanisms may range from phone calls, textmessages, emails, voice over IP, messengers, IoT alarms,etc. Facilities to cater to differently abled people should bebuilt in to the new emergency response system.
• Messages, photographs and videos received by theemergency response system can be used later for judicialpurposes and to create awareness among citizens.
Reliable And Responsive
Threat Modelling
• With the emergence of smart cities, decision makers insmart policing should not be limited to the awarenessof the threat posed by the attackers, but also how tomeasure the consequences associated with the criminalactivity.
• For example, drug trafficking poses financial, social andhealth threats to the society. Police should develop threatmodels to assess the overall size and cost of crimeoccurring in the city. Threat modelling would enablerisk assessment across diverse areas includingimmigration, customs, terrorism, bio security andemergency management.
Threat Modelling Around The
World
• In the UK, the Serious Organised Crime Agency(SOCA) issues an annual Threat Assessment ofSerious Organized Crime, which is based on strategicintelligence work and is aimed at estimating the harmto society by organized serious crimes.
• In Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police(RCMP) has developed Sleipnir, a framework thatquantitatively measures the relative threat posed bydifferent organized criminal groups. This model hasbeen adopted and modified by other policing agenciesin Australia and the UK.
Threat Modelling Around The
World
Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA)
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
Techno-savvy And Trained
• Intelligence-led policing is a concept thatinvolves a number of factors coming together.
• It has been defined as “a business model andmanagerial philosophy where data analysisand crime intelligence are pivotal to anobjective, decision-making framework thatfacilitates crime and problem reduction,disruption and prevention.”
• Techno-savvy and trained police targetsprolific and serious criminal offenders in anorganized, thoughtful manner.
Defining And Managing End-to-end
Process
• Multiple departments are involved in the end-to-endjudicial process – police, prisons, judiciary, specialagencies, forensics, etc. These departments haveseparate processes, separate systems and multipleowners for the same process. Coordination failures arecommon, leading to delayed judgments, and highopportunity costs.
• Smart policing objectives would be achieved whenthe entire value chain works in tandem and usesinterlinked technology systems to provide services tocitizens.
Defining and managing end-to-end
process
Building capacity in the right skills
• With the growing smart technologies, a basic level ofIT knowledge should be mandated for new recruitsof police departments.
• Basic IT skills would help them learn the technologyfaster and develop the skills easily. Police should definecareer paths in specialized skills such as forensics andcybercrime to support the growth of joining officers.Police departments should take the help ofuniversities to identify in advance the new streamsfor skill development. A right mix of skills should bemade part of smart police in each area.
Defining And Managing End-to-end
Process
Cybercrime Management
• Cybercrime is vastly under-reported, but even the crimes
that are reported show that this problem is increasing
rapidly. For example, a single cybercrime attack against
banks in 2013 involved US$45 million in losses — more
than the total losses from all “traditional” bank robberies
in 2011.
• Cybercrime can result in not only financial theft but also theft
of personal information. All police officers should receive a
certain degree of training about cybercrime, so that they are
able to respond to victims in an intelligent way.
Defining And Managing End-to-end
Process
• In addition, police departments should have a number of
cybercrime experts who have received a much higher level of
training. Policies and laws should be made to appropriately
punish cyber criminals.
Effective use of data
• With the growth of technology, police departments are
generating large volumes of digitized data such as
surveillance videos, digitized records of criminals, social
media feeds, forensic reports, etc. These should improve
decision-making by officers.
Conclusion
The recommendations from the roundtable supportingS.M.A.R.T. policing are provided below.
Sensitive and strict
• a. A multi-disciplinary approach to police reforms isneeded, involving different stakeholders includingcivil society, industry, academia, lawyers, media, etc.
• b. There is an urgent need to introduce Citizens’Charter in a time-bound fashion to ensure highstandards of service delivery to citizens.
• c. A concerted effort to improve the living andworking conditions of policemen should be made toincrease their commitment to their service.
Conclusion
Modern And Mobile
• a. Leading practices should be introduced
through the optimal use of technology in a
timebound manner. This could be ensured by
obtaining professional help and freeing core
resources for policing work.
Conclusion
Alert And Accountable• a. The need of the hour is systemic reforms that free the police
force from illegitimate interferences and insulate it fromexternal pressures.
• b. Forces need to be equipped with functional autonomy. Thepolice should be free from extraneous influences and should beprovided with functional and financial autonomy.
• c. Promotion of good governance, accountability andtransparency in policing should be encouraged. Measures areneeded to ensure that police is made accountable.
• d. Public-private partnership and partnerships with technologyand system integrators should be encouraged to introduce newertechnologies in the police functioning from time to time.
Conclusion
Reliable and responsive
• a. Increased use of technology in police work
and creating Standard Operating Procedures
(SOPs) for effective delivery of services
Conclusion
Techno-savvy And Trained
• a. Recruiting skilled manpower through a
transparent recruitment process would
enhance the image and reputation of
policemen.
• b. Training would improve the skills and
efficiency of policemen. World class training
institutes for police recruits and in-service
trainees should be established and maintained.
Conclusionc. To address the security needs of the smart city, capacity
should be built across various areas, such as:
• • Training and infrastructure development to tackle new age
crimes
• • Build expertise and well-researched domain knowledge to
deal with the challenges faced by the police and security
establishment
• • Build expertise to support policing and Intelligence
Services – cryptologists, analysts, language experts, forensic
experts, etc.
• • Think tank on policing could be brought together as experts
to encourage research on specific aspects of policing.
Conclusion
• d. Leveraging IT, including the use of mobiletechnologies and social media, should beencouraged
• e. Use of technology to deal with the issues ofcybercrime, cyber-security, data privacy andother areas linked to the use of the internet
• f. Creating centralized and connecteddatabases of crime, criminal records, peopleverification, historic analysis of place ofincident, etc. that would help in establishinglinkages among people and places
Smart Police Stations-Initiative
• Prompted by a call from Prime Minister NarendraModi for smarter policing, the Home Ministry hasproposed to set up one model police station in eachof the country’s 29 states with features such asautomated booths for the public to report crimes,computers, Wi-Fi access and toilets.
• The new policing units, named SMART police stations,(the acronym stands for strict, sensitive, modern,mobile, alert, accountable, reliable, responsive, techno-savvy and trained) will be “citizen-friendly and clean,”the Ministry of Home Affairs said in a press statement
Smart Police Stations-Initiative
• Each will have a waiting area with ventilationand solar lighting, clean drinking water andproper toilets – basic amenities that arepresently lacking in many of the country’s15,000 local police stations.
• The model stations are expected to have areceptionist to guide visitors to the relevantofficer or file a complaint by going to acomputerized kiosk, which would be linked witha back-end system as well as closed-circuittelevision for tracking follow-up action.
Smart Police Stations-Initiative
• The Home Ministry’s latest initiative
toward model police stations is meant to
help police officials perform the tasks of
maintenance of law and order and
investigation of cases efficiently.
• “The SMART police station would become the
foundation towards SMART policing,” the
Home Ministry said in the statement.
First Smart Police Station
at Andhra Pradesh
• The fully air-conditioned station has a staff
room, dormitory, mini control room, a
reception chamber and individual
enclosures for the Station House Officer and
three Sub-Inspectors.
Smart Police Station
• Andhra Pradesh’s first Smart PoliceStation, having look and feel of a corporate-style office, equipped with a “custody” roomand under watch of CCTV network, is set tostart functioning.
• Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naiduinaugurated the State’s first Smart PoliceStation at Nagarampalem in Guntur city inthe capital region Amaravati.
Smart Police Station
• The facility, in fact, doesn’t look like atypical police station, thanks to plushexterior and interiors that leave one with afeeling of having walked into a corporate-style office.
• There are no boundary walls to the SmartPolice Station but the exterior has beenbeautifully landscaped while the facade is ofglass.
Smart Police Station
• The fully air-conditioned station has a staffroom, dormitory, mini control room, areception chamber and individual enclosuresfor the Station House Officer and three Sub-Inspectors.
• Staff manning the station will not wear theusual khaki uniform and instead sport a navyblue trouser and a light blue shirt.
• While women Constables have a light blue sarifor uniform, the lady receptionist willadditionally sport a navy blue blazer
Smart Police Station
• Interestingly, the station does not have a
“lock-up” for detainees. Instead, a
“custody” room with a double bed has been
readied.
• The facility, built in two months at a cost of Rs
91 lakh, is one of the two model Smart Police
Stations constructed in Guntur as a pilot
project.
Smart Police Station
• Andhra Police administration has drawn up plansto build another 100 Smart Police Stations acrossthe state. “The Smart Police Stations will be thepride of police,” Director General of Police told.“Pride to policemen and satisfaction to publicis the main aim behind the Smart PoliceStations. Simplicity is the hallmark,” he said.
• Closed circuit television cameras have beeninstalled in and around the station for closersurveillance of staff behaviour and movementof visitors.
Polis Station- A Case Study
Can architecture make people trust cops?
• In North Lawndale, Chicago, a public basketball court ischanging the way people relate to local police. Built just lastOctober, it’s a half court built right next to the West 10thdistrict police station, and it’s designed to get cops to shoothoops with young men and women they might otherwisenever meet.
• Conceived by MacArthur “genius” and architect Jeanne Gang,the simple project is part of her broader proposal to reimagingisolated, fortress-like police precincts as welcomingcommunity centres.
• In her vision, better police precincts could house a barbershop, a garden, a gym, and lounges with free Wi-Fi—alldesigned to draw community members to hang out instations and eventually build friendlier and more trustingrelationships with the cops sworn to protect them.
Polis Station
• “It made me think, are there ways design can
help improve the relationship between
community members and police if we look at
the architecture?” says Gang at the New York
Times Cities
Polis Station
• The name “polis” comes from the Greekideal city-state governed by a sense of closecommunity ties.
• For a radical rethink of friendly policebuildings, Gang decided to shake up her owndesign process. Instead of starting at thedrawing board, her studio went to Chicagocommunity members and law enforcementofficers for design tips.
Polis Station
• Gang’s plan features creative ideas forrepurposing abandoned parking lots and parkinggarages surrounding a precinct. Polis paints anidyllic mix-use complex with sports facilities,outdoor theatres, cafes, places of worship,markets, a community vegetable garden,meditation zones and public housing for copsand community members.
• Some low-budget interventions includeproviding free wifi or introducing a benchoutside buildings etc.
References• Architect Jeanne Gang
http://studiogang.com/• BUILDING SMART POLICE IN INDIA: BACKGROUND INTO THE NEEDED POLICE FORCE REFORMS
niti.gov.in/writereaddata/files/document_publication/Strengthening-Police-Force.pdf
• The Bureau of Police Research & Development
http://www.bprd.nic.in/
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• Defining e-policing and smart policing for law enforcement
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• First Smart Police Station Inaugurated in Andhra Pradesh
http://www.jagranjosh.com/current-affairs/first-smart-police-station-inaugurated-in-andhra-pradesh-1486467398-1
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