Rahee.in, the world’s first crowd sourced law enforcement start-up, was launched on 15th August 2015, by a group of young IT professionals based in New Delhi, India.
Team Rahee has created an integrated mobile platform which will use the versatility and scalability of crowd sourcing to “force” people to follow traffic rules and drive safe. The idea is to reduce the load on over-burdened authorities and involve people in helping make our roads safe.
The Rahee platform will be available in select cities across the world so that citizens can not only report traffic offenses, but other problems like broken roads, littering, and other public grievances. Government authorities will get access to these issues so that they can issues tickets or take relevant action against the offenders based on the evidence uploaded by users.
ahee has a mobile app (launched initially for Android platform only) which users can download and then click various traffic offenses which will go to a central server where a team will process all the incoming offense reports and categorize them. The local authorities (for example local traffic police, municipal bodies) will be given access to these reports so that they can process each offence and send traffic tickets (challans) based on the photographic or video based evidence uploaded by different members. Based on the vehicle offense history, Rahee will also generate a score, a kind of a rating of a particular vehicle, which can be accessed freely to know how “good” the vehicle was driven. Later on, as a part of phase 2, Team Rahee plans to collate all this data and make it accessible to the insurance companies so that even if the violators do not pay tickets or challans, that amount can be added to their annual insurance premiums and claimed by traffic department once they renew their policies annually. Also, insurance companies will be free to charge higher premiums to vehicle owners with a “poor” Rahee rating.
For Rahee’s long term vision, Abhishek Sharma, co-founder, says: “Our aim is to make our roads safer through crowdsourcing and involving general public so that no traffic violator can think of going scot-free and can be punished not only through challans but also through a degraded vehicle rating. We believe in transparency, and the entire process has checks in place so that “fake” photographs are not used to create challans”.
