Himachal police inks tech deal with IIT Mandi

Shimla : An MoU was signed today between the Himachal Pradesh police and IIT Mandi to set up an institutional mechanism to help the state police to update their knowledge about new technoligies, geographical and temporal analysis.

It will also help in prediction of crime trends, traffic management, e- challaning,beat patrolling system,threat and security analysis,cybercrime, cyber forensics and cyber security.

The collaboration will be based on research and development activities and capacity building involving police officers, IIT faculty researchers and students.

The collaboration also aims to improve police working and training at the Police Training Centre, Daroh.

The state government claims there are 19,300 CCTVs installed all over the state and these were helpful in preventing and detection of crime,investigations, traffic managment and improving police delivery.