Steria, an IT-enabled business services company, recently announced that it has bagged a contract with Uttar Pradesh (UP) Police, to help improve the efficiency of its emergency response and Security Surveillance System in the city of Allahabad. Steria will provide a variety of support, including integration and IT services that will enable the police to make faster and smarter decisions on how it uses the resources to respond to emergencies.
These (surveillance) systems are responsible for monitoring sensitive locations in the city and for addressing distress calls from 6 million citizens of Allahabad – which also hosts the famous Kumbh Mela every 6 years, where over 50 million people visit and take the holy dip in the Ganges River during a 55-day period.
Under the new contract, Steria will provide integrated Computer Aided Dispatch platforms that will handle inbound ‘Dial-100’ citizen distress calls. The GIS-based (Geographical Information System) platform will capture caller information and location coordinates, and dispatch them to the nearest police patrol vehicle for emergency handling. This new functionality will improve efficiency, reducing the time it takes to respond to calls and providing a better view of emergency situations for more efficient resource mobilisation and allocation.
Steria will also implement CCTV surveillance with advanced video analytics at 43 sensitive locations across the city of Allahabad. These locations will be monitored round the clock from a modernised control room with the help of OFC communications backbone.
The project includes a systems integration phase, followed by two years of application support. Steria will work on the installation of the application software, the setup of data centre infrastructure, the system’s control room, network and connectivity.
Steria has partnered with TCIL (Telecommunications Consultants India Ltd), a public sector telecommunications consultancy and engineering company that operates under the Ministry of Communications and IT, for the bid.
Sanjeev Varma, Senior Executive Vice-President, CEO Steria India, comments: “The solution will provide the police force with a comprehensive real-time view of events across the city of Allahabad. With this crucial insight, emergency response teams will be able to better assess needs, prioritise and coordinate actions and proactively deploy assets to address and potentially prevent multiple, complex incidents within the two cities. This win not only strengthens our position in the homeland security in India but it also helps create a new volume benchmark, which can be leveraged for similar opportunities in other Steria markets.”