Chief Minister Siddaramaiah favoured a national policy on Prohibition that would help reduce alcoholism and bring crimes under control.
“If the Union government were to bring out such a policy, we will support it,” he said in Belagavi on Wednesday, after inaugurating a conference on the new police beat system.
He also said that creating awareness about the ill effects of alcoholism, helping society develop temperance and counselling addicts were better than controlling the menace by enforcing Prohibition.
People’s participation
He urged officials to realise that allowing people’s participation was the best form of governance. He hailed the new beat system, developed by the Belagavi district police as it aimed at increasing public participation.
He said that it is a pro-people system that would increase people’s engagement with policing. It will also make law and order management and crime control effective.
The amount and quality of public participation is the measure of good governance, he said, while meeting some members of the local area beat committees.
The new beat system, envisaged by a team headed by Superintendent of Police Ravikante Gowda, aims to include local residents in patrolling and other policing functions.
It also fixes individual responsibility on police officials and constables attached to particular beats, according to him.
Mr. Ravikante Gowda said that this was proving to be beneficial as several crimes had been detected or prevented by local beat members who informed officials concerned.
