In addition to their hectic schedule in attending to law and order related issues, crime detection, and traffic regulations, Coimbatore City Police are involving themselves in various community service projects in and around the city over the last two-and-a-half years.
It includes cleaning of schools and anganwadi premises, painting walls of public buildings and planting saplings. The police have also carried out mass cleaning drives in the tanks in and around the city and removed tonnes of garbage. While local police personnel, armed reserve, home guards and traffic wardens involve in such activities, the city police commissioner and deputy commissioners also take part in some of the programmes.
“Participation is on a voluntary basis. We like to be a part of such activities as we get an opportunity to interact with the public of the locality,” says K. Manohar, a traffic policeman attached to the Ramanathapuram Police Station. He says that the public interact with the police more easily at such events as police personnel are not in their full uniform. This has helped residents realise that police personnel and officers are easily accessible.
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Be it cleaning school premises, overhead water tanks or painting walls, the police personnel say that they get satisfaction in such activities as they get a chance to create a better learning environment for students.
The armed reserve police, who are raising saplings for all plantation drives carried by the police in schools, said that their effort is not in vain. They also say it is good to see students nurturing the thousands of saplings that they have planted in schools across the city.
(Reporting by
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M.K. Ananth)