City Police Commissioner G. Sparjan Kumar on Saturday urged residents associations in the city to caution parents about the growing tendency among children to bunk off classes.
Addressing a Janamaitri Residents’ Association meeting, which was held after a break of four months, he said women police personnel deployed as part of the Pink Beat had come across several schoolchildren loitering in bus stations during class time.
“The associations should take up the issue at their monthly meetings so that parents can keep a tab on children,” he said.
A large number of people turned up at the Janamaitri initiative, which provides the public a forum to raise their grievances directly with the police and officials of the city Corporation, Kerala Water Authority, Kerala State Electricity Board, Health Department, and Kerala State Road Transport Corporation.
Responding to complaints about lack of police personnel near schools to regulate traffic, Mr. Kumar said the force functioned with limited capacity and the additional manpower requirement was met with assistance from NCC and SPC cadets. The school authorities should seek the support of Parents Teachers Association in helping the police regulate traffic, he said.
Residents brought before the police the need to streamline the traffic flow near the medical college and East Fort. They sought an electronic traffic signal near the MCH and speedy completion of bus terminal at East Fort. Drug peddling in the city was also presented at the meeting. Mr. Kumar said policemen had been asked to keep a close watch on shops near schools.
Police ask them
to warn parents about schoolchildren
who bunk
off classes
