AI cameras, safety poles to power Kerala Police’s ‘Nirbhaya Nisha’ night safety initiative for women

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The ‘Nirbhaya Nisha’ inaugural of the Kerala Police to guarantee night-time information for women volition see an integrated surveillance and exigency effect framework.

The programme volition deploy real-time tracking systems, AI-enabled cameras, and centralised bid systems to heighten monitoring and guarantee swift involution for women travelling betwixt 9 p.m. and 5 a.m.

A defining diagnostic of the task is the installation of ‘safety poles’ linked to power rooms successful engaged municipality corridors and autobus stops.

The inaugural volition bring unneurotic aggregate existing information mechanisms nether a unified framework. Women successful distress tin question assistance done the constabulary Emergency Response and Support System (ERSS), 112 exigency helpline, SOS diagnostic connected the Kerala Police mobile exertion (Pol-App), territory power rooms, road patrol units, and Pink Patrol vehicles.

S. Ajeetha Begum, Inspector General of Police successful complaint of the Social Policing Directorate, said 10 further women constabulary unit would beryllium attached to metropolis constabulary power rooms specifically for Nirbhaya Nisha operations. The absorption of the task volition initially beryllium connected large towns alternatively than the full State.

“If a pistillate intends to question during precocious hours for work, education, aesculapian oregon idiosyncratic needs, and feels unsafe, she tin interaction the power room. Depending connected their availability, a Control Room conveyance tin beryllium dispatched instantly to assistance her and assistance put safer nationalist transport,” the serviceman explained.

In situations wherever Control Room workload is high, women tin activate the SOS diagnostic connected Pol-App oregon dial 112. The ERSS power country volition way the caller’s determination existent clip and alteration constabulary teams to respond arsenic soon arsenic vehicles go available.

The information poles volition beryllium equipped with unrecorded CCTV cameras and alarm oregon panic buttons. When activated, the unrecorded video provender volition beryllium relayed straight to the power room, allowing officers to see, hear, and pass with the idiosyncratic successful distress.

Two models of information poles person been projected nether firm societal work partnerships: a basal camera-enabled rod activated by pressing the panic button, and a much precocious 360-degree AI-powered camera strategy that is susceptible of automatically detecting antithetic enactment oregon commotion, and alerting the power country without manual activation. The second volition relation likewise to the AI-enabled systems astatine contiguous utilized by the Motor Vehicles Department to observe postulation violations.

Various manufacture bodies person pledged enactment for the projected installations successful Thiruvananthapuram city, Kochi and Kottayam. Twenty information poles each are planned successful these cities successful the archetypal phase.

In Pathanamthitta district, the rollout volition statesman successful Thiruvalla, portion successful Thiruvananthapuram agrarian district, Varkala has been selected for the aviator phase. The inaugural volition gradually grow based connected feasibility and partnerships secured by territory constabulary chiefs.

Published - February 24, 2026 07:21 p.m. IST

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