Some 100 of the 2,000 yuan ($316)-gadgets have been handed out to security guards, volunteers and traffic officers, and will be officially put into use later this month, said authorities.
Photos and footage obtained by patrollers will be uploaded to an internal government digital platform, where officials from 22 district-level departments are expected to have access to the information by the end of the year, Xie Zhibin, vice director of Comprehensive Management of Public Security Shanghai Committee.
Further designed to prevent relevant authorities from shirking responsibilities, the platform is linked to a software program designed to notify certain departments of a case - determined by submitted key words - via short messages and computerized alerts, he said.
"The system will also rate officials on the length of time taken to solve a case," he told the Global Times Thursday. "And, if a department fails to properly deal with a case, it will receive a warning, which is factored into the department's overall performance rating."
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