With an aim of enhancing the security grid and police patrol, the Chief minister of the state of Tamilnadu Edappadi K Palaniswami had launched and inaugurated "Amma Patrol" with the package of 40 pink and white painted Innova cars which gets added to the fleet of Chennai patrol in order to ensure to construct safe and secured atmosphere to the women and girls living in Chennai. The Chief minister had green flagged this new initiative to the city before taking off to his first international tour to the United States and Britain which was planned for a fortnight.

The reports which had circulated the inauguration had said that this brand new initiative designed exclusively for safety of women and girls, will concentrate and provide immediate response at the scenes of crimes against women and girl children.

The government had funded the scheme of "Amma Patrol" from Nirbhaya fund which was proposed by the Central government after 2012 Delhi gang rape case. The Nirbhaya fund had instructed the state governments to introduce security schemes towards improving the safety of women in the cities and the allocations of the fund will be of 60-40 ratio where Indian government will contribute 60 percent while the state governments will water the rest of the fund from its treasury. The reports added that the Tamilnadu government had spent Rs 6.8 crores from Nirbhaya fund to release the package of 40 cars to "Amma Patrol".

The state government had named the pink patrol as "Amma Patrol" under the name of the late Chief minister J Jayalalithaa, who has been refered as "Amma" by the state people. The presence of the pink patrol will be seen in the areas which had been reported with crimes against women. This "Amma Patrol" has been equipped with the technologies of patrolling where women police officers from the All- Women's police station will be dispatched on the patrolling vehicles which was enhanced with revolving lights, sirens and GPS  to ensure that the improved communications and visibility in place. While the vehicle patrols towards the crime scene, the GPS of the vehicle will be monitored in the police control room where the necessary and concrete steps taken to counter the crime and to deploy additional troops and the fleet to the spot.

The reports further furnished that "Crime against Women and Children wing" will take the responsibility of observing and managing the "Amma Patrol". The state government of Tamilnadu had constituted "Crime against Women and Children wing" in last March with the motive to overview the crimes that have been committed against women and children and this will take charge of monitoring Amma Patrol along with monitoring other special units like anti human and child trafficking.