LUCKNOW, Oct. 8 -- The Uttar Pradesh Police's decades-old wireless communication system has been upgraded. The new system enables seamless communication between handheld radios and mobile radios across the city, revolutionising the police force's response time and coordination, said senior police officials on Wednesday.

The officials said the upgrade marks the most significant modernisation of the force's communication system in nearly 50 years.

Director general (DG) of police, telecom and radio services, Ashutosh Pandey, said that police personnel can now communicate with each other through mobile radios over a distance of over 30 km, a significant improvement from the earlier range of 1-3 km.

The DG explained that this range was incr...