Ramanathapuram
In a bid to establish a close rapport with the people and take the services of the police to the people at their doorsteps, the district police have launched an ‘Outreach programme’ allotting villages to policemen in all the police stations in the district to help them to remain in touch with the villagers.
After the office of Director General of Police (DGP) had suggested that the district police could set up two nodal police stations and allot villages to the policemen, attached to the police stations, Superintendent of Police Omprakash Meena had decided to extend the ‘community policing’ to the entire district.
“As the outreach programme would help the police to establish and maintain rapport with the people, we have decided to convert all police stations in the district as nodal police stations,” Mr Omprakash told reporters here on Monday.
Uchipuli and Kenikarai police stations had already become nodal police stations, he said.
While policemen attached to the Uchipuli station have been allotted 11 mother villages (revenue villages) and 58 hamlets, policemen in Kenikarai have been allotted eight mother villages and 42 hamlets, he said. Each policeman would be allotted two mother villages and hamlets under them, he said.
The policemen would visit the villages allotted to them on regular basis and maintain diary, recording the details of their interactions with the villagers and problems they identified. “People who had been dialling 100 to contact police could henceforth call their village policemen,” the SP said.
The ‘community policing’ method would help to nip in buds the problems, he said. A complaint box would be kept in the villagers for the people to drop complaints if they hesitated in interacting with the police, he said. He would randomly monitor the programme, the SP said.
The police had identified villages – home villages and hamlets — to be allotted to the policemen and the programme would take off in a full-fledged manner from January next year, the SP said.
The district had 1,600 policemen and the district had 429 revenue villages.
