Forty-year-old Mary Rani, working in a private school here as a teacher, was a worried lot when she lost her smart mobile that contained data relating to the school and students. So was a farmer, K. Ramayya, from Kandukuru who lost his cell phone at a bus station.
However, their worries soon came to a naught as an IT core team, constituted by Prakasam district Superintendent of Police Malika Garg specially for the purpose of tracing and retrieving lost mobiles, sprung into action and traced their mobiles in no time.
Their Standard Operating Procedure include taking note of the International Mobile Equipment Identity(IMEI), a 15 digit code unique to each mobile, and logging in the details in the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems(CCTNS) and obtaining call data from the service providers concerned.
