With the help of technology-enabled and community-centric policing, the Bengaluru Police have successfully traced and reunited as many as six missing and unattended children with their families within minutes over the last 12 days, under the Bengaluru Safe City Project, supported by the Namma-112 emergency response system and the automated Hoysala patrol dispatch network.
According to the police, over the past few weeks, multiple incidents involving vulnerable children were resolved swiftly through real-time emergency response, GPS-based patrol deployment, and seamless coordination between the police control room and field personnel. Response times in these cases ranged from an impressive 4 to 20 minutes.
In three years, 9,639 cases of missing children reported in State; 1,094 remain untraced
The first incident occurred on December 27, 2025, under the jurisdiction of J.P. Nagar Police Station, when a mentally unstable woman attempted to take away a two-year-old child. The suspicious behaviour was noticed by ASI Mallikarjun B.G. of Tilak Nagar Police Station, who alerted Namma-112. An automatic Case File System (CFS) event was generated, and Hoysala-145 reached the spot within five minutes, ensuring the child was safely reunited with the mother.
