The Police Computer Division has created a smartphone App called “Fuel IMC” that enables its officers to minimise gasoline rackets. Over the past two days, police arrested over 150 gasoline racketeers, and raids have been intensified, according to police.
Police spokesman Nihal Thalduwa told the Sunday Obsever yesterday that the app, Fuel IMC, has been issued to chiefs of police divisions and OICs of police stations around the country.
The officers have been directed to speak to fuel station owners and petrol shed workers about the use of this app, he said.
“If they are interested, they will be given the Fuel IMC App,” he said.
When a vehicle arrives at a fuel station the fuel shed attendants may enter the registration number of that vehicle into the Fuel IMC.
When that number is entered, wherever that vehicle goes to refill their tank on the same day, the App will identify where it was fuelled previously, at what time, and for how many litres.
“If a vehicle is discovered to have obtained extraordinary volumes of fuel for its use, the authorities will be able to investigate whether that person was gathering them for the purpose of selling them at excessive rates to the public,” he said.
It assists law enforcement in identifying racketeers who gather gasoline for unlawful sale.
Over the past two days, police arrested over 150 gasoline racketeers, and raids have been intensified, he said.