The residents of the City can look forward to interacting more with the City police on the social media platforms in the coming days with City Police Commissioner B. Dayananda planning to expand interaction with public through Facebook and Twitter.
A week after starting the City Police’s twitter account >@CPMYSURU , Mr. Dayananda said the City police was planning to make its key officials more accessible to the public through their individual twitter accounts.
He was participating in an interaction with the media organised by Mysuru District Journalists’ Association (MDJA) here on Monday.
However, the City Police will study the response of the general public to the existing social media initiatives before taking a decision to expand the same.
Though more than 10,800 Facebook users are currently using Mysuru City Police’s Facebook page, the Twitter account started on April 26 this year barely has only 150 followers.
A City Police official said the IVRS facility to lodge a complaint and the SMS facility to register complaints of refusal to go on hire or demanding of excess fare by autorickshaws too are yet to be fully made use of by the residents of the City. “These facilities were launched recently along with the Twitter account and very few people know about them. Probably, we need to publicise them more for people to start using them,” said a police official.
STANDARD PROCEDURE
Mr. Dayananda said that the police propose to introduce standard procedures while conducting checks for drunken driving and helmet-less driving.
He said such standard procedures exist in Bengaluru. “I will study the procedure currently in practice in Mysuru before introducing a standard procedure,” he said.
He was responding to queries on the steps the police will take to prevent mishaps taking place while the City police conduct checks for helmet-less driving and drunken driving.