March 7: The District Police Range, Kathmandu has started to mobilize the Electronic Quick Response Team (EQRT) along with GPS for controlling and minimizing crime in order to boost up law and order and public security in the Kathmandu Valley.    
According to the Range, EQRT is being deployed under the 'Safer Valley Project' concept for promptly responding to citizen's complaint and incidents as part of its goal of making the police service efficient and technology-friendly.    
Senior Superintendent of Police Bhupendra Khatri, chief of the police range, said the quick response team equipped with technology has been mobilized in order to make the policing based on technology, strengthening crime investigation, making it fact-based and also to make the regulation of the police personnel effective.    
In this connection, 60 teams throughout the district have been mobilized along with digital technology in the first phase. The electronic system has been installed enabling 24 hours' tracking using the GPS system from the Police Control Room in order to create an environment for the police's quick response teams from the Range and the Police Circles and Sectors under it to reach the incident site at the earliest.    
Soon after reaching the incident site, the details of the incident site and the police team’s behaviour with victims and service recipients would be recorded in control room automatically. Additional cameras have been installed on the body of 60 QRT members so that activities of the QRT and incident site can be viewed live from the control room.    
Khatri shared that they would be mobilized in the field round the clock as the first response team. The team was deputed with various safety equipment including GPS tracking device, video camera, radio set and siren with light in order to make work execution of police quick, smooth and effective.    
Chief of Kathmandu Valley Police Office, Additional Inspector General of Police Deepak Thapa mentioned that the security of Kathmandu Valley would be more effective and technology-friendly with this initiative. -- RSS