Sanghi said the objective is to ensure pan-India implementation of the panic button before the end of this calendar year. Since most panic buttons operate on an interconnected system via. In case of an emergency, a staffer can trigger the device which alerts security or team supervisors. This safety device is operated with a single push of a button. Once the trial is successful in UP, it will be implemented in three other states identified by the Centre and eventually in the entire country. A hotel panic button is a wearable emergency button used most often by housekeeping staff.
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The WCD joint secretary said the volunteers would be screened by the authorities and would receive an orientation on how to provide help to a woman in distress.
Nearly 25-50 volunteers in the vicinity of the victim will also be alerted through messages, he said. Following this, five SMSs will be immediately sent to police authorities, and another three to five SMSs will be sent to family members of the victim," the official said. “Once, a user presses the panic button, five calls will be made to emergency number 112. Sanghi said the government although was yet to notify which button on a phone would function as the panic button. However, a person using a basic phone need only press the designated key, he said. Gandhi said an earlier trial of the project saw a large number of prank calls, leading to a delay in implementing the panic button feature.Ĭhetan Sanghi, joint secretary, WCD explained that all new phones in the country now have a panic button, but the back-end architecture is being implemented in Uttar Pradesh.Ī smartphone user will have to download a mobile application which will send alerts if a victim long presses the panic button on the phone. “If it works in UP, it can work anywhere," she quipped in a veiled reference to the high crime rate in the northern state.
“The pilot project (to test the panic button backed by a real-time police response) will start in the state of UP from 26 January," the Women and Child Development (WCD) minister told reporters at an event in New Delhi.
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