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The Rail Robocop ASC Arjun, billed arsenic the archetypal of its benignant successful Indian Railways, has proved its effectiveness wrong little than 2 weeks of its motorboat by assisting the Railway Protection Force successful apprehending 2 hardcore habitual offenders astatine Visakhapatnam Railway Station a fewer days ago.
The robocop, deployed for surveillance and patrolling, detected the suspects arsenic they entered the railway presumption astir 8 p.m. connected February 2 by matching their facial images with a pre-loaded database of known criminals. The strategy instantly alerted the RPF CCTV Control Room astatine the station.
On receiving the alert, on-duty CCTV Head Constable B. S. Narayana analysed the unrecorded CCTV provender and promptly informed Sub Inspector V. Keerthi Reddy and the Crime Duty Prevention Detention Squad squad of Waltair Division, who were contiguous astatine the station.
Acting swiftly, the squad conducted a coordinated cheque and apprehended the accused, identified arsenic Hadapa Shiva, 39, and his subordinate B. Bhangaur.
The accused failed to nutrient valid travel tickets. Subsequent verification of their antecedents by the RPF revealed that some were habitual offenders with transgression cases registered astatine Rayagada Police Station, involving offences specified arsenic theft, robbery, dacoity, battle and arms-related cases implicit the past respective years.
As the accused were recovered travelling without tickets, they were booked nether the provisions of the Indian Railways Act, 1989, arsenic amended successful 2003. The substance was besides intimated to Rayagada Police for further action.
The humanoid robot has been deployed arsenic portion of the RPF’s modernisation and integer translation initiatives to supplement railway operations, peculiarly successful the areas of security, rider assistance, assemblage absorption and information consciousness among obstruction users.
It whitethorn beryllium recalled that the robocop, designed and developed successful Visakhapatnam utilizing indigenous, state-of-the-art technology, was unveiled connected January 22 by RPF Inspector General Alok Bohra and Divisional Railway Manager Lalit Bohra.
Mr. Lalit Bohra said the apprehension marked the palmy real-time recognition and apprehension of habitual offenders successful a crowded nationalist spot with the assistance of the Rail Robocop, demonstrating the effectiveness of AI-powered surveillance and facial designation exertion successful strengthening railway security.
“The feeding of information pertaining to offenders is helping the robocop successful speedy recognition of suspects. Rail users are besides listening keenly and paying attraction to the rider information warnings issued by the AI-enabled robocop,” said RPF Sub Inspector V. Keerthi Reddy.
