How easy is it to pronounce two words,”Friendly Police”,because it doesn’t require any accountability,credibility and integrity.But,to really convert these words into action requires honesty with your profession,to become a man of your word,need to take strong and effective decisions and political will to keep people’s interest first rather than fulfilling selfish self-interest in politics.

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.