Intelligent Emergency Response System for Police Vehicles in India Ishan Ganeshan University of Southern Denmark, Odense ishan.ganeshan@gmail.com Abstract When faced with emergency situations there might be several critical factors that could preclude the possibility for the victims to call for help. In situations like kidnapping, rape, robbery making use of the traditional voice based methods to call for help might alert the offenders and put the victim’s life at a greater risk. This paper describes the proposed Emergency Response System (ERS). It focuses on developing an alternate mechanism through human computer interaction whereby help can be called through a single press of a button and the locations of the callers are tracked in real time by the police vehicles. Also, the administrator (head of the organization) can view the performance of all the police vehicles at any time through a web application. Data mining algorithms are used to analyze crimes in different regions of a city and at different times of the day. Based on this crime mapping, the administrator assigns patrol schedules for different police vehicles throughout the day. Hence, through this study an alternative system of emergency response is proposed which would make it very easy for people to call for help, very easy for police vehicles to know the locations of the callers and identify crime hot spots and for the administrator to keep track of the performance of each police vehicle. 1 Introduction In India, there has been an alarming increase in crimes with every passing year. Every 20 minutes there is a rape happening somewhere in India [1]. During 2001-2011 there has been a 31.4 % increase in c rimes committed under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) [2]. Recent events [3] have highlighted the poor state of emergency response in India. There are many problems plaguing the current system. Telecom Regulatory Authority of India [4] has identified the following loopholes in the present emergency response system.