{"id":20065,"date":"2014-08-06T21:14:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T15:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=20065"},"modified":"2014-08-06T21:14:13","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T15:44:13","slug":"thiruvananthapuram-city-police-mobile-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/thiruvananthapuram-city-police-mobile-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Trivandrum city police launches mobile app to curb crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>#EnteThiruvananthapuram:<\/strong><\/em> In a bid to connect more with the public, Trivandrum City police has launched an innovative mobile app called \u2018Thiruvananthapuram City Police\u2019 (TCP). The mobile app which was developed by UST Global, was launched by City Police Commissioner H Venkatesh at a function held in his office.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thiruvananthapuram City Police app will enhance the quality of service provided to the public by acting as a direct medium to alert the police whenever they are in danger. It will also help to connect with emergency services like control room, ambulances, nearest hospitals and fire and rescue services stations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Using TCP people are able to report an offense, along with a photograph, by sending an e-mail to the City Police Commissioner. Other features of the app include information on speed limits in the city, map of police stations in Trivandrum, road safety measures etc. The app will help people to be aware of various traffic rules, and the fines for each violation just in case policemen on the road asked for fines higher than that stipulated by law.<\/p>\n<p>UST Global said that, the app will be upgraded soon by including a panic button which allows the user to send SOS message to the city control room with the push of a button. The app will automatically send location of the user and alert the control room if the user moved from that location. Earlier UST Global incorporated panic buttons in all its employee cabs operating in Trivandrum.<\/p>\n<p>In the future, the app will provide updates about traffic alerts, general alerts to public from police department and Whatsapp integration. Thiruvananthapuram City Police app is free to download and is available in both Android and iOS platform.<\/p>\n<p>The app can be downloaded from the official website of City Police -www.tvmcitypolice.gov.in.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.ust.tcp\" target=\"_blank\">Android users can download the app from here<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#EnteThiruvananthapuram: In a bid to connect more with the public, Trivandrum City police has launched an innovative mobile app called \u2018Thiruvananthapuram City Police\u2019 (TCP). The mobile app which was developed by UST Global, was launched by City Police Commissioner H Venkatesh at a function held in his office. Thiruvananthapuram City Police app will enhance the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":20070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-20065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}