The Goa Police (GP) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the startup 5ire, under which all police department documents will be digitized.
The Goa Police in India plans to go paperless and digitize all GP data. For this purpose, a corresponding agreement was signed with the blockchain startup 5ire. This is reported by the Times of India (TOI).
According to GP Superintendent Nidhin Valsan, such a step will ensure transparency of police data, increasing trust in the department among Goa’s citizens. It would also reduce the department’s costs, making it more efficient.
Valsan expects to digitize GP’s records within a year, after which new police data will start being entered immediately into the registry. There are also plans to digitize all day-to-day police reports and GP employee records. Using blockchain technology will allow anyone to access police records without the ability to make any changes to them.
The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is not legally binding, but the law treats it as a serious document that commits the parties to the signed agreement. 5ire representatives had previously reached a similar agreement with the police of another Indian city, Muzaffarnagar.
The Goa Police also recently signed a memorandum of understanding with the Indian Institute of Technology Goa (IIT Goa) for joint research and development projects in artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Recall that India’s National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL) has recently been using blockchain technology to monitor securities, and in December last year, the Indian government initiated a “national blockchain.”
