normally assisted with help of traffic inceptors and gadgets like alcohol testers for checking cases of drunken driving, laptops with connections to Motor registration departments for checking illegal registered vehicles plying as well as speed breakers. 3 Traffic Inceptors Vehicles are pressed into Kochi City Traffic Police with radar and GIS tracking facilities as well as advanced communications facilities. Traffic Education and Awareness Program:- The Traffic police maintains a regular training and awareness unit for training, educating and bring awareness of Traffic laws and educating traffic offenders. The education wing provides regular training for first time drivers and retraining for offenders. Traffic Hotline- Traffic police now opened a new hotline 1099 for assistance of Kochi Traffic Police. Vehicles Kochi Police primarily uses Mahindra Invadors as its patrol vehicles. The force maintains nearly 100 such vehicles under brand- Kochi Control Room Vehicle (KCRV) fitted with advanced inceptor gadgets and wireless communications systems. Kochi is one of the few police force in the country to have a dedicated marine force with high speed inceptor power boats for regular patrols in backwaters and lakes along with countering any attack from sea. The force maintains 2 full steel heavy boats and 20 light fiber glass made power boats for fast hovering. The force maintains a strong team of armored vehicles for any anti-riot/sabotage operations. All motor vehicles are placed under Motor Wing with its main office at Armed Reserve Offices Patrol Cars – 7 Mahindra Scorpios / Invadors – 93 Mahindra Bolero – 18 Toyota Qualis SUV – 9 Chevrolet Tavera – 1 Mahindra Logan – 1 Tata Sumo – 10 Ashok Leyland Mini Vans/Buses – 14 Honda Pulsar Motorbikes – 105 High speed Patrol Boats (Fiber) – 20 Steel Interceptor Boats – 2 Anti Sabotage Armored Vehicles Armored SUVs – 12 Varun Water Canon (Riot control) – 2 Recovery Van/Pick Ups – 5 Tata armored buses – 8 Ambulances – 3 Force Traveller – 4 Initiatives Janamaithri Community Policing System Janamithiri (meaning- Friends of Public in Malayalam) policing is an initiative of Kerala Police, first experimented with Kochi City Police. The main feature of the initiative is to create a Police-Public interface and ensure various plans and methods to keep crimes at lowest with support of public at lowest grassroot level. The highlight is ensure maximum participation of general public into day-to-day activities of police and create a permanent mechanism for constant interactions