Mangalore City Police have launched the QR-code-based anonymous reporting portal in the city to help students, parents, institutions, and others to report drug consumption and sales. Police Commissioner Sudheer Kumar Reddy said this can be used to report persons consuming drugs, peer pressure to consume drugs and sale and delivery of narcotics in one’s locality.
The QR code would be printed on our posters to be displayed in educational institutions shortly. Upon scanning the QR Code, a form from the city police opens, containing 14 questions with multiple answer options. The first question is what they are reporting about. It is followed by questions about the place of consumption or sale of drugs, name of the college or paying guest accommodation, additional information, how often it happens, name of the person involved, whether it is an individual or group, narcotic drugs involved, need of counselling support, friends or peers struggling with drug abuse, reason for reporting it, videos or photos related to the information, and would they be interested in being contacted back.
The booklet stated that police will track submissions 24X7. To maintain the confidentiality of the information, every submission will be assigned a code. The counselling and resources will be deployed within 48 hours. There will be no IP or device tracking. The data will be removed from the system after the issue is resolved, it stated.
