<p>Mumbai police have taken the use of smartphones and its apps to the next level. Besides these being used as just tools for chatting, apps such as WhatsApp, Hike, Messenger, and the likes are being increasingly used by city police to investigate, transfer important crime reports and statistics, transmit photographs of crime spots, suspects, accused and victim, and even to exchange minutes of a meeting.</p><p>According to senior police officers, almost 90% of officials from across Mumbai Police right from the top level to the level of constables are using apps such as WhatsApp to carry out their daily routine works and exchange information among the peers.</p><p>Additional commissioner of police, north region of Mumbai Police, Sunil Paraskar, said, "I actively promote the use of apps such as WhatsApp among my officers. For officers who are on the field all the time, it is the best way to transmit information and alert their peers."</p><p>He added that these tools have helped officers speed up investigations. "We had a suspect who had fled to Nashik after committing a robbery. After nailing him down, all we had to do was to click his picture and send it to the victim for identification via the app. All this makes our jobs easy and efficient," said Paraskar.</p><p><a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/1892707/report-cops-get-smarter-with-messaging-apps">Keep reading...</a></p>