Eye On Indian Justice System

70

450 police suwidha centres planned in state 
Amritsar, April 5 
In an effort to integrate community policing with the existing policing, the state government would set up as many as 450 community police suwidha centres in the state under the banner of SAANJH.

450 police suwidha centres planned in state 
PK Jaiswar
Tribune News Service
 

Amritsar, April 5
In an effort to integrate community policing with the existing policing, the state government would set up as many as 450 community police suwidha centres in the state under the banner of SAANJH.

“The idea is to make policing more people friendly. The common man would not have go to police stations on minor issues after opening of these centres,” Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal said here today. Punjab would be the first state in implementing the system that would commence in a few days, he claimed.

Sukhbir was speaking on the first day of the conference on Citizen-centric Police Station Reforms.

The CPR centres would be assisted by district-level committees, which would be autonomous registered societies in partnership with representatives of the police, administration and civil society.

Stressing that the government was serious about upgrading the policing in the state, he said trained staff at these centres would provide every facility other than law and order to the people through a single window. He said the government had finalised the design and model of the centres having a corporate look.

Meanwhile, emphasising on the need of modernisation and efficient policing, Governor Shivraj Patil said every state should have more police stations as per the police-population ratio that was not very satisfactory in India. For a population of 1.2 billion, there are less than 13,000 police stations, he said.

Patil also advocated adopting a system to provide compensation to the victims of crime as provided in the law. He also viewed that the state governments should recruit more female officials in the police for providing justice to the women.

During the conference, Sadar police station Ludhiana was awarded being No 1 in Asia in implementation of people-friendly practices. Among other police stations that were awarded during the conference included Seme police station (Nigeria); Krasnoslobodsky Municipal police station, Mordovia (Russia); 38th station of Puente Alto, Chile; and 14th police station Varzea, Brazil; and Palmdale Sheriff’s Station, US.