Ghaziabad police will install GPRS system in all its patrolling vehicles to better tackle crime in the city ahead of the Commonwealth Games

Concerned over the deteriorating law and order situation in the city, Additional Director General (Technical) Dev Raj Nagar said a foolproof monitoring system would be introduced in teh city soon.

He announced that the entire police control room system would be equipped with GPRS - the general packet radio service.

Dev Raj Nagar asked Senior Ssuperintendent of Police Akhil Kumar to submit a detailed proposal of Integrated Control System (ICS) involving a cost of Rs.2.17 crore.

As part of the system, each police vehicle would be equipped with GPRS system.

The new ICS will link all police vehicles to the Police Control Room at Kotwali. The location of each vehicle would be available with the control room at any given point of time.

'This would tremendously increase the beat patrolling and lead to an enhanced vigil. The scheme was to be implemented much earlier but could not be pursued,' said a senior officer of Ghaziabad police.

The new system will be implemented before the Commonwealth Games, the officer added.

GPRS is a value added service which provides a wide range of bandwidth.

India to promote safety of women and child visitors

With an eye to the Commonwealth Games 2010, India will soon launch an initiative to create awareness about providing a safe and friendly environment to foreigners, especially women and children.

The initiative ‘Safe and Honourable Tourism’ will especially focus on creating awareness among various stakeholders, including taxi drivers, auto drivers and hotel staff.

The idea is to promote a safe environment for women and children, who will be coming to India during the Commonwealth Games next year, a tourism official told IANS.

The decision to launch the initiative was taken Monday at a meeting chaired by union Tourism Secretary Sujit Banerjee with the Indian chapter of the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA), a non-profit travel trade association, which has networks around the world.

“We will soon come out with an action plan for all service providers. This is one step through which we will be able to highlight that we believe in responsible and sustainable tourism,” the tourism official said.

“The code of conduct will be out in six months time,” he added.

“This kind of programme will also add more value to the Incredible India campaign,” the official added. The Incredible India campaign, which has earned accolades globally, showcases India’s beautiful holiday destinations.

The ministry will also rope in the National Commission for Women, the apex body that protects and promotes the interests of women in the country, on what kind of awareness and sensitisation programmes should be carried out.

“It was decided that sensitisation programmes and awareness campaigns should be immediately launched,” the official said.

Also, present at the meeting were representatives from the Save the Children, a leading child rights organisation and United Nations on Drugs and Crime, a UN body fighting against illegal drugs.

Detectives may be used during Commonwealth Games

Private snooping agents may be used to carry out special checks on violation of Intellectual Property Rights on official trademarks and brand merchandise of the Commonwealth Games next year to avoid monetary loss to the tune of crores of rupees.

The organising committee of the games has explored the possibility with the private detectives association.

The spies will garner information from around the national capital region where small industrial units and individuals are said to indulge in manufacturing of duplicate and fake logos, symbols, sporting gear, apparels and other goods bearing official holograms and symbols.

"Violation of trademark and proprietary insignia dents the monetary interests of the official partners and business houses who put in huge sums of money to obtain sponsorship rights of such events," Chairman of the Association of Private Detectives and Investigators Kunwar Vikram Singh said.

"The brand protection cell of the organising committee of Commonwealth Games has spoken to us about the issue. We assured them that our professional snoopers can check the duplication and faking of official trademark and logos efficiently," he said.

The detectives, after deploying techniques of detection, identification, curtailment and prevention take help of the police to conduct searches at unauthorised premises resulting into arrests and seizures.

Singh, who also heads the Central Association of Private Security Industry, said the trademark violation is an area of concern for the organisers of such huge events.

"A delegation of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games 2014 had even come down here and inquired about the IPR violations and their remedial measures," Singh said.

The Organising Committee (OC) of the CWG, in a public notice issued earlier had said, "it has recently come to our notice that some organisations/persons who are not authorised are using these marks (official CWG logos) in respect of their products and services. These unscrupulous organisations and persons are thus cashing in on the goodwill and reputation of OC of CWG Delhi 2010 besides diluting the brand equity attached to these marks.

Any person indulging in unlawful use of the mentioned marks and any unscrupulous organisation/person who fails to desist from using the trademarks... and continues to conduct business... will be dealt with...," it added.

According to experts, money spinning events like the CWG are prone to such intellectual data theft as the activities are spread over countries and fetch revenues worth crores.

Fake bags, stationery, replicas and even merchandise are flooded in the markets before the start and during the games, they said.