The premiere of the film, Oru Nerkazhcha , produced by the Shadow police wing to create awareness of substance abuse among children, will be held at Gujarati Hall here on Thursday. The police came out with the new film after the successful production and screening of Priya Sahayathrikanu , an awareness film on rash driving.
Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala and senior police officials will attend the premiere to be conducted as part of the formal launch of ‘Clean Campus, Safe Campus’ project in the city.
Police officials say that the 40-minute film, produced at a cost of Rs.4 lakh, will be used as an entertainment medium to reach out to children in their drive against drug abuse. “We have made it technically perfect and visually appealing to communicate the message the way the youth would appreciate,” they say.
Sudhi Krishna, a senior clerk at the City Commissioner’s Office, is the director of the film. Along with seasoned student actors, 15 police officers also appear in the film.
The highlight of the film, according to senior police officers, is that it deals with some real-life situations and revelations of people who were nabbed by the Shadow police team in various narcotic cases. It traces the circumstances that lead a student to narcotic substances, they add.
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Lending a creative twist to policing, the Edachery police station has come up with a full-fledged public library as part of strengthening its citizen-friendly programmes under the Janamaithri scheme. Police officials says this is the second of its kind in the State.
The library, comprising books of all genres, will be open for public during the office time. Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala will inaugurate it on Thursday.
The library, which was set up with the support of voluntary contributors, will be supervised by the station house officer with the help of a civil police officer. To improve the collection, the station officials will seek the contribution of prominent publishers and sponsors.
“Initially we had plans to set up a small office library for the police personnel here, which later developed into the concept of a full library,” officials said.
They added that senior officers extended a warm support to the concept, which could be taken up as a model in all other stations.
(Reporting byMithosh Joseph)
