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Bharti Airtel enhances Traffic Enforcement System through BlackBerrys

Bangalore, 3 March, 2010

• Hon. Home Minister, State of Karnataka presents BlackBerry smartphones to traffic police personnel
  
  
• Bangalore Traffic Police equips all 650 Traffic Police officers with BlackBerry smartphones, making it the largest deployment of BlackBerry smartphones for a police department in India

Bharti Airtel, Asia’s leading integrated telecom services provider, today announced that it has successfully completed the deployment of the “Traffic Police Enforcement Automation” system by providing BlackBerry® smartphones to all the officers of the Bangalore Traffic Police. Dr. V.S.Acharya, Hon. Home Minister, State of Karnataka in the presence of Mr. Shankar Bidari IPS, Commissioner of Police Bangalore City presented the last lot of 10 BlackBerry smartphones to the Bangalore Traffic Police personnel. With this, the Bangalore Traffic Police department has equipped all 650 officers a BlackBerry smartphone, giving them access to the large central database of vehicles, drivers and offenders.

The initiative brings together all aspects of operational traffic policing in one unified system and is capable of pulling out data on more than two million cases in less than two minutes. The solution involves vigilance through video cameras, set up at different traffic signals and equipping every Bangalore traffic police officer with a BlackBerry smartphone and Bluetooth® printer, which gives them access to the history of the driver and the vehicle and allows the officer to issue challans on the spot with the click of a button. This secure login based application assists in determining if the offender has a pending fine against his vehicle. The solution also allows officials to monitor their staff and generate periodical reports on performance

Commenting on the initiative, Mr. Praveen Sood- Addl CP Bangalore Traffic Police said “The BlackBerry solution from Airtel is a powerful tool, which not only enhances the visibility of a robust and a streamlined Traffic Enforcement System but also gives us an effective way to control traffic offences.”

Commenting on the occasion, Najib Khan- Chief Operating Officer-South, Enterprise Services, Bharti Airtel said “It is a privilege for Bharti Airtel to have been entrusted with this prestigious project and is a clear recognition of our strength to deliver customised solutions. As an industry leader, we are committed to partner and deploy innovative solutions, such as BlackBerry smartphones, that make a positive impact on the community.”

As part of its efforts to develop applications for m-government initiatives, Bharti Airtel is working with various state governments to offer mobile based services for municipal corporations, NREGA and healthcare centers. An Airtel application has enabled property tax collection to go online, bringing down the queues in front of payment counters as well as enhancing revenue collection.

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