Lucknow Police have started a
programme named ‘Jansahyog’,by putting police friendly mobile on
roads.Now,police friendly mobile having modified bikes will patrol the areas
from 10:00 am to 10:00 pm and would manage the traffic problems,catching chain snatchers
and other works related to policing.It’s a good initiative taken by DIG,Lucknow
to mobilize police personnels in an organized way with an effort of covering very
small areas.But,I would like to raise some serious questions regarding the
concept of creating this kind of force.First,there is a big difference between
managing traffic and resolving law and order related issues.If this police
friendly mobile is entrusted with a task of catching chain snatchers,then it is
essential to deploy more than 200 squads in the entire city of Lucknow and
resolving robbery cases requires an extraordinary skills and approach.But,if
this force is entrusted with the task of managing traffic problems,then the
nature of work is totally different.Second,by managing only traffic problems or
catching chain snatchers,would not make police friendly,unless and until,the
whole system of police functioning at the level of police stations would be
overhauled.Third,who’s going to monitor them? If monitoring would be done at
the level of DIG,then we can’t expect better results,because we have seen in
the past,that many projects have been started at the level of senior
officers,but after sometime the implementation part of the project get the
lowest place in the priority list of that officer.So,instead of starting new
projects every month,bring a significant change in the entire system and most
importantly fix the accountability of IPS Officers.
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