International Community Policing Award-2009

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

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Pride Suraksha Scheme (A Night Watch Scheme)


Police on its own cannot ensure a foolproof protection of all households in the city due to insufficiency of manpower and due to the adverse manpower- police ratio. Hence a unique night watch scheme was introduced in the areas under the various Residential Associations, by using public volunteers from that Locality, who were trained for local area night patrol by the concerned police stations. These volunteers in active association with the local beat policemen patrol or guard their respective colonies in the night. As these volunteers are the residents of that area they would be in a better position to identify strangers in the area and also to report suspicious activities in their areas, to the police. They work under the

full cooperation and control of the beat policemen on duty in that area. For better identification purposes, the concerned residential associations select these volunteers and the City police would verify their character and once clearance is received they were issued identity cards by the police to help them in their duties. These selected volunteers in assistance with the local police keep night watch in their respective areas to ensure that no theft takes place in that locality during the night. They also serve as police informers on anti social activities and thefts etc taking place within the locality. The scheme has been an enormous success not only in bringing down the crime rate, particularly the theft cases, but has also aided in the detection of various sensational property offences.


Night Squad members of Ponnurunni region-Palarivattom PS with Dy.Mayor of Kochi Sri: C.K.Manisankar, Councillor Smt: Jain and Police Officers.




The City police launched a new web site with the name www. PRIDE.org.in a joint initiative of the police and the residential associations in the City. The web site carries all the latest news on the Police initiatives in Community policing and also the oncoming programmes in this field.

Traffic Congestion

Kochi city the only metro, commercial capital of Kerala State has the following specialties, the 4th biggest airport, 2nd biggest harbour in India, only International stadium, Only stock exchange in the state, seat of High court, capital of Sky Scrapper, 2nd biggest railway station, “Vyttila” the largest junction in Kerala both in terms of area and vehicle traffic. With all these specialties traffic related problems were on the rise.

The major problems identified in the road sector are narrow and congested city roads, the railway line dividing the city centre into two parts creating bottlenecks on the narrow Railway over-bridges and level crossings, absence of bus bays causing reduction in the road capacity, the increase in the number of personalised vehicles, which is estimated to be at the rate of 13 per cent annually.

The development of water transport facilities for cargo, passenger movement, improvement of the road system and proper traffic management were necessary, along with the creation of the suburban rail-based mass transport system. Segregation of long distance passengers away from the city centre were also warranted as part of the traffic management.

A struggling economy meant limited resources to carry out the above mentioned projects. With the rise in the number of traffic accidents and calls, there was a growing and legitimate concern that officers were being placed at increasing and unacceptable work load.

Kochi city Police held meetings with residents associations met to share resources, information gleaned from citizen contacts, and to identify strategies to address the ever increasing traffic related problem which was the bane of Kochi city. The following series of programmes were executed to tackle this menace.

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