Pune: App to help cops track externed criminals

AS a spin-off of the geolocation-based phone app used for tracking home quarantined persons, Pune police have launched an app named ExTra for tracking and monitoring criminals externed from police limits.

The facial recognition and geolocation-based app ExTra (Externees monitoring and Tracking system) is a spin-off of the Home Quarantine Tracking System (HQTS) used initially by Pune police and all Maharashtra police units to monitor people asked to remain in home quarantine.

Pune City police operationalised ExTra on an experimental basis from Saturday.