The New Nation - Internet Edition

Mamunur Rashid

To ensure fool proof security to the city dwellers and to reduce the rate of crimes in the capital, the DMP is going to set up digital WiMAX technologies with 2000 new walkie-talkies for the law enforcement agencies.

According to the Department of Telecom of the Police, DMP has decided to distribute 1,500 hi-tech walkie-talkie sets for the police personnel, 30 for patrol vehicles and 120 for the police station in the city.

In the new system, police officials can send call in four ways 1) Group by group call, 2) Individual to individual call, 3) Broadcast call, and 4) Emergency calls.

At present police radio communication is in the manual system walkie-talkie, where all police officials of the DMP could listen to any particular call and sometime confidential messages may be leaked out.

Moreover, police officials spend most of their duty hours glued to their walkie-talkies.

In the first step the two systems-digital phone and manual system of the walkie-talkies-will be used in tandem. Later, the system would be digitalized to improve the efficiency of the police department even further, sources said.

The new system offers some facilities: if any walkie-talkie set gets lost the control room can easily disconnect the individual set ID from the network, whereas, in the old system, the entire walkie-talkie communication system collapses.

The most appealing aspect of the walkie-talkie set is that if any one calls the police from a trouble spot, the message gets relayed to the patrol police vehicles instantly, which can rush to the spot and rescue the person from the situation.

AIG (Telecom) Alim Ahmed told the New Nation that command control and communication system for secure compactness panels will be fully established within March 2009 and 85 per cent of the work has already been completed.