Superintendent of Police launches Locked House Monitoring System app

Superintendent of Police launches Locked House Monitoring System app
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The district police have launched an awareness and education campaign involving all policemen on the home security system launched by police.

Anantapur: The district police have launched an awareness and education campaign involving all policemen on the home security system launched by police.

District Superintendent of Police (SP) GVG Ashok Kumar has called upon the police to fan out to all residential areas and introduce the Locked House Monitoring System (LHMS) app. The people are to download the LHMS app from a play store and fill up a form giving details of name, address, cell number and other details sought and get it registered with the police.

The police in turn would give a unique identity to the applicant. When the applicant goes outstation, and keeps his house locked for a few days, the police are to be informed so that the police would come and install a wireless motion camera at the house and from police station monitor the house and also the movements of people in the vicinity of the locked house.

The cameras will be linked to the police control room. The cops are holding meetings in every residential colonies and in apartments and creating awareness on the newly introduced app. They are asking all citizens to download the app in their cell phones. The police are also asking the women to keep their valuable gold ornaments in bank lockers when they lock their houses and go out station.

The police are advising the people to tell their friends and relatives to keep a tab on their house in their absence and also if possible to ask one of their confidants to sleep in the vacant house. Also, the residents are advised to switch on a single bulb in the house and also leave their slippers at the entrance of their houses to give an impression that someone is in the house.

Also, when residents go on a long trip to other places, one should ensure that neither newspapers nor milk packets nor any garbage found thrown away in the compound, giving an impression that house burglary can be carried out.

Residents in all areas are being advised to install CCTV cameras before their houses and also systems that alerts all through a siren when someone touches your vehicle in the night. Finally, the people travelling in buses and trains should not accept eatables from strangers to avoid being drugged.

Ashok Kumar told The Hans India that high tech security systems need to be installed by one and all to check crime and criminal elements from having a field day and to ensure a crime-free and peaceful city.

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