Women-led drone patrols to secure MMTS trains

The Railway Protection Force (RPF) of the South Central Railway’s Hyderabad Division connected Thursday launched ‘Pink Patrol’, a first-of-its-kind inaugural successful Indian Railways that combines women-led drone surveillance with rapid-response policing for MMTS suburban trains.

While long-distance trains are covered nether the RPF’s My Saheli initiative, officials said MMTS services airs unsocial operational challenges, including short-distance travel, precocious rider density and faster question cycles, necessitating a much agile information mechanism. Under Pink Patrol, state-of-the-art drones equipped with precocious surveillance exertion person been deployed. These see thermal imaging sensors for low-light and nighttime operations, nighttime vision-enabled optics, high-definition real-time video transmission, long-range zoom capabilities for precision monitoring, and stabilised aerial platforms for continuous tracking of moving trains. The drones besides diagnostic accelerated deployment capableness for exigency effect situations.