New Delhi, April 3 -- The police control room (PCR) unit of Delhi Police has rolled out a motorcycle patrol system across 173 police stations across the city in an effort to reduce response time of first responders to distress calls and sharpen street-level policing, senior officers said on Thursday.

While each of the 173 police stations out of the 179 in the city have received one PCR motorcycle, also known as a "112 patrol bike", officials cited above said that a proposal is in pipeline to equip the remaining six police stations and 23 police stations of the Delhi Metro and Railway police units with at least one PCR motorcycle each.

The initiative places at least one patrol bike at each police station, designed to ensure that first re...