RANCHI: Now people in Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Dhanbad and Bokaro need not go to police stations to lodge an FIR in case something bad happens to them. Chief minister Raghubar Das on Wednesday launched Jharkhand Online FIR System (JOSF) as a pilot-project in four districts. Initially JOSF will work only in 10 police stations situated across the four districts and would be extended after the new project sinks in well among the techno-unfriendly policemen.

At http://jofs.jhpolice.gov.in/ people living under the jurisdiction of police stations of Kotwali, Jagnnathpur, Ormanjhi in Ranchi district, Jamshedpur Kadma and Sonari and Potka in East Singhbhum district, Bokaro steel city and Gomia and Dhanbad and Katras in Dhanbad district can lodge FIR.

ADG (operations) and police spokesperson S N Pradhan said JOSF is Aadhar-enabled and the complainant needs to just put in UAID number and brief of the complaint he/she wants to lodge. “The system will lodge a complaint. A team from the police station will come to the person on fed address and take the details and complainant’s signature and convert the complainant into FIR. The complainant need not go to the police station,” Pradhan said.

The police have designed JOSF in a very user friendly way. The system however left a couple of people who wanted to lodge the FIR disappointed. “We will improve the system and also take care of technical glitches if any,” Pradhan said.

Das launched Accident Relief and Medical Assistance in Ranchi (ARMAR), city patrol and highway patrol systems as well. In cooperation with Tata Steel and Medica Hospital, police have deployed six ambulances with trained medical staff. The ambulances will be parked in different parts of the city and respond in real-time in case some accident occurs.

“The ambulances are guided by the control-room. In case someone calls the control room, it will direct the ambulance deployed in the concerned area to respond and give post accident relief to the victims. It will help a great way to save the life of the victims,” Ranchi SSP Prabhat Kumar said.

A total of 11 brand new vehicles were pressed into city patrolling. The ubiquitous color vehicles, all carrying police officers, aim to check frequent crime incidents. “The vehicles will patrol various important roundabouts and respond in record time when it gets information of crime from anywhere in its jurisdiction,” city SP Jaya Roy said. All the GPS-fitted vehicles are connected with police control room.

DIG Ranchi Arun Kumar Singh said four vehicles including two ambulances have been pressed into Ranchi-Jamshedpur highway patrolling. One vehicle has been pressed into highway-patrolling in Giridih. It will patrol the highway between Parasnath railway station to Parashnath hills.

