One touch solution: Kolkata Police launches 'Bondhu' app

The Kolkata Police have launched its much-awaited cell phone app "Bondhu" using which one can not only lodge certain complaints but can also alert the police's control room in case in any danger by pressing the panic button in it.

Vineet Goyal, Additional Commissioner of Police (I), said: "The app has been introduced to help common people as they do not have to visit police stations anymore to provide details of domestic help or tenants or lodge complaints about missing mobile phones."

The app will help people to reach out to the city police easily just in a single click. There is a panic button in the app that will connect a user to the Kolkata Police's control room. Thus, a smartphone user will no more have to key in the helpline numbers to contact the police over phone when in any distress.

With a few seconds of clicking on the panic button, the caller will be automatically connected to the police's control room. At the same time, a person can tag four persons by providing their phone numbers and they will also be getting alert messages when the panic button in the app is pressed.

Besides paying traffic fines while on the go through the app, one can also report traffic norm violations using the same. A user of the app can also check the status of his or her missing mobile phone in the app and all sorts of crimes can be reported to the police using the app.

Police always ask people to provide details of domestic helps or tenants to the local police station so that the police can easily detect a crime using the information. From now on, one can easily provide the details to the police using the app.

At the same time, the e-GD system has also been made available at important intersections, Metro stations, shopping malls and railway stations.

One can visit the e-GD kiosks situated at the mentioned places to lodge complaints for missing of 31 different articles including mobile phones, SIM cards, laptops, PAN cards, voter identity cards, ration cards, education certificates, ATM cards, keys of bank lockers, Aadhaar cards, bank pass books, driving licenses, LIC policies, share certificates, parchas, passports, birth certificates, death certificates, office identity cards, rent bills and number plates of vehicles.