Women Safety Apps

Apps for improved safety of women and children

Women Safety Wing has deployed a gamut of apps for enhanced women and child safety. The apps serve the dual purpose of preventing and managing crimes, and generate awareness at various levels. The Telangana Police achieves a 360-degree view of various issues through the TS Cop application which connects all the technology initiatives under the Telangana Police department.

Key Technological Interventions

SHE Teams QR Code App

Bharosa App

To deal with Sexual Offences cases, Bharosa center was established in May 2016, at Hyderabad as a Society for Protection of women and children.
Bharosa centers were formed with the logistic help, funding and support from the Department of Women and Child Development, Telangana.
Bharosa is now being replicated in all districts of Telangana State.

Domestic Violence App

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Women Safety Wing started online counselling for complainants who are unable to approach the police station directly for lodging complaints pertaining to Domestic Violence.
The Tele-counselling app works by connecting the complainants call to the counsellors over different languages.
The Dial-100 team attends to the calls received from the complainants and immediately informs the concerned local police station.
The concerned police station attends the complaint and the victim is directed to 8886640100 for counselling.

Dhruva Portal

'Dhruva' is a knowledge portal that strives to increase awareness amongst various stakeholders ranging from police and prosecutors to citizens,
From conceptual explanations to protocols and guidelines, 'Dhurva' serves as a database to understand everything related to human trafficking.
Under 'Dhruva' a training handbook for all police personnel of AHTUs was designed by Tharuni NGO both in English and Telugu.
The 'Dhruva' portal is fully functional at https://dhruvaht.org

LMS

Women Safety Wing leverages technology to impart high quality education about Women and Child safety across the state of Telangana through the LMS initiative. The objective is to spread awareness about Women Safety to the remotest parts of Telangana, thereby addressing the challenge of digital divide to bridge the gap between urban and rural children.

Analysis and R&D Wing

The Analysis Module in Women Safety Wing Telangana technically supports the different modules set up by the wing. It analyses the data of women & child-related cases to prevent and reduce crimes against women & children. This module assists the Special Task Force (Sexual Offices Module) in locating the accused and help in arrests that are pending in POCSO Act cases. This module also assists the investigating/ module officers to track the victim (missing/ kidnapped person), suspect/ respondent/accused persons, in cybercrime & Human Trafficking cases.