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Problem is with the traffic and with the ambulance locations. They should bring in a centralized dispatch system soon where all the private service providers can be controlled. Otherwise one ends up calling different services at different numbers to locate an available ambulance which becomes time consuming.I think, this is one area India is way behind developed countries. Here in USA 911 has to respond in max 4 minutes.
How long will it take from here...
TO Here:
I think those Austrian fire trucks were specifically meant for CWG
CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Police has decided to provide each police station with a multifunctional vehicle to ensure greater mobility thereby reducing the police response time in case of any eventuality.
Flagging Off a convoy of 30 Scorpio Getaway vehicles allotted to the police stations of three districts namely Bathinda, Mansa and Muktsar, Punjab DGP P.S. Gill said that the State police have purchased 150 Scorpio Getaway vehicles at the cost of Rs. 7.25 crore in the first phase.
These 150 vehicles would cover almost half of the Police stations of the state while the remaining would be covered in next phase. He said that the idea behind opting for these vehicles to reduce the response time of police stations as now these days most of the criminals uses fast mobility resources.
To counter them effectively it becomes imperative to provide force robust, powerful and multifunctional vehicles and the newly acquired vehicle fulfills these conditions, he said.
The Police Chief informed that the State police had recently provided 63 new PCR vehicles to the different districts aimed at upgrading the communication infrastructure of Punjab Police to the World class level so that all these efforts could act in complete synergy to respond to any crises in any part of the state.
He said that those vehicles were fully equipped with Global Positioning System (GPS) and other emergency tools and had been deployed at strategic points to respond to any distress call at the earliest.