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Introduction
The Andhra Pradesh Police had to be more and more responsible for the election as both parliamentary and assembly elections were held at the same time. The arrangements for the bondobust were very important as most of the villages are extremists affected and some were sensitive and voter’s safety became the important issue for them. In the traditional bondobust if any incident occurs at the time of election, to trace the location, incharge name, telephone number and to take proper action it may take around 15 to 30 minutes. By this time the incident may take its chance and there may be damage to property as well as life. To over come this traditional way of decision making to control the situation, The Andhra Pradesh Police needed a solution, that can make the situation easy to handle and take decision immediately to control the situation and before any further damage occurs to life of the voter’s. This was the time when GIS came to rescue them.

Bondobust
Once the base idea of the villages ( categorized on sensitivity ) have been set out, the police have to make arrangements for the bondobust. Generally bondobust is a very hectic process for the police as lot of base data has to be collected and process and then only they can take a decision on how to place different police force in the state. GIS has given them a clear view in a spatial format and which made them to clearly understand and make accurate and fast decisions.

For the election, bondobust has been made into three categories:

Mobile Party
This party will be having a four wheeler and will be moving in a particular route in an area. This route will be covering around 5 to 7 polling stations. They have to reach at any incident that may take in their area ( Plate 1 ).

Striking Force
Around 5 to 10 mobile parties together come under a striking force. This striking force is a static force which is placed in any of the area within their mobile party routes, so that they are easily accessible to all the mobile parties. They are mainly called when the situation cannot be controlled by a single mobile party. Striking force will be having information of all the mobile parties, their route, the Incharge name, his mobile phone number and the force strength ( plate 2 ).

Special Striking Force
A group of around 3 to 4 striking forces come under a Special Striking Force. They will be having a greater number of force strength. They are mostly used when any major incident occurs in their area ( Plate 3 ).

Methodology
To create the maps and the database which will be suited for the purpose for the Andhra Pradesh Police a little be different methodology was applied than the usual one.

Different thematic layers that have been generated for this purpose are :

State Boundary
State boundary plays a major role as the bondobust at the state border is of atmost importance. From the View of police a lot care has to be taken at these places. GIS Maps made them the task very easy for discussion making for planning of bondobust at major and important place along the border.

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