International Community Policing Award-2009

International Community Policing Award-2009
International Community Policing Award-2009

Friday, June 18, 2010

Janamaitri in 100 more police stations



Numberof murders has come down Global police association hails the initiative



Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan has said the Janamaitri Suraksha, a community policing project, will be implemented in 100 more police stations this year.

Addressing the district-level inauguration of the project here on Sunday, he said the project had already been implemented in 43 police stations. ‘‘Such has been the popularity of the project that there is huge demand from people's representatives to get it implemented in their constituencies,'' he said.

He claimed that community policing had yielded results. ‘‘The number of murders had come down in the State from 393 in 2006 to 325 in 2009. Offences in Kochi city have come down by 38 per cent after community policing came into place. The International Association of Chiefs of Police has appreciated the initiatives in Kochi,'' the Minister said.

Mr. Balakrishnan said he had no illusion that everything in the police force would be hunky-dory overnight. ‘‘Nevertheless, community policing is a much-needed initiative. Over a decade, it may totally change the police-people relations in the State,'' he said.

Among those present on the occasion were R. Bindu, Mayor; P.C. Chacko and P.R. Rajan, MPs; Director General of Police Jacob Punnoose; Mohammed Yasin, Inspector General of Police, Thrissur Range; M.P. Dinesh, Superintendent of Police; Sukumar Azhikode, social critic; I. P. Paul, Leader of the Opposition in Thrissur Corporation; Jayaraj Warrier, actor; and Vidyadharan, music director.

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