Google Maps It is the most used navigation application, and it is not only used by ordinary people, but also by law enforcement, especially in emerging countries.
We all know that according to news we have given previously, India is one of those countries where you should not trust too much in the suggested routes of Google Maps.
Last November, however, Google Maps suggested a path to a driver that led him straight down an unfinished bridge into the river.
And a circumstance related to Google Maps has happened again in India, where 16 police officers were held prisoner by several locals.
The story is curious, because initially police officers obtained information that a wanted criminal was hiding in a plantation within the state of Assam.
So they relied on Google Maps to find said location, and following the suggested route, they arrived at the place where the criminal was supposedly hiding.
Unfortunately, the team of 16 agents when the raid began, They realized they were in the wrong place..
The worst of all is that they were without uniforms and carrying weapons, so they were attacked by locals in the area who thought they were thieves or bandits..
In the end, the 16 police officers were held prisoner at the site, specifically in the Mokokchung district of Nagaland.
The situation was so terrible that even the police rescue team had to go to this place to explain to the locals that they had really arrested police officers and not bandits.
Of course, one of the police officers was injured, and many of them even had to sleep as prisoners during the first night.
This is a clear example that you should not rely exclusively on Google Maps for these types of issues.
However, the Indian authorities previously recommended all their citizens to really check the issue of suggested routes, as it seems that the Google application does not get along very well with them in this country.
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Tags: Google Maps, Apps