Jorhat SP Amanjeet Kaur addresses the media on Friday. Picture by UB Photos

Jorhat, Jan. 9: Jorhat district police have become the first in Upper Assam and third in the state to have their own website with the deputy inspector-general of police (eastern range) Satyen Gogoi launching it today at the office of the Jorhat superintendent of police.

Gogoi said www.jorhatpolice.org would boast of several features that offered a variety of services to people online.

He hoped that the website would come in handy for the people and bring the police closer to the public and contribute to making the district safer.

Jorhat superintendent of police Amanjeet Kaur, while elaborating the services to be available in the website, said one of the highlights was “send a tip” column.

She said through this column a visitor could provide information on any crime being committed or was in the process of being done or information on wanted criminals.

Kaur said the person could provide his/her identity, address, phone number and e-mail id, or could opt to remain anonymous.

The SP said such information would immediately come as an SMS and a mail only to her mobile phone and e-mail id and also to any senior officer authorised by her. Such information will be investigated and action taken accordingly.

She said another service would be that people could register complaints to the police online by typing about the same with their full address and contact numbers and the police would attend to it as per law.

However, such complaints will not be converted into FIRs and if the nature of the complaint was serious then the complainant would be contacted and asked to lodge an FIR with the police station concerned as signature of the complainant was needed for registering a case, Kaur said.

The website will have names and mobile phone numbers of all senior police officials besides all officers-in-charge of police stations and outposts in the district. The maps of areas of all police stations, along with data on different categories of crimes and pictures of missing persons and repeat offenders, will be available.

Other information available would be traffic guidelines, documents needed while driving, amendments of important acts and Supreme Court guidelines on diffe- rent matters related to the police.

A set of questions on traffic rules will be posed as a quiz to visitors and they could rank their performance by comparing it with others.

She said the website would be updated within short intervals of time with one officer deputed to supervise its functioning while the technical part will be taken care of by the private firm that designed it.