The community policing initiative at HSR police station is no longer being done. The contract with Janaagraha, an NGO, that was enabling this initiative with the the cops has expired. However, the community policing will restart once the community liaison officers (CLO), the rank of Assistant Sub Inspector, are identified at the police station.
Fifteen children who lived in HSR Layout were enrolled into schools due to the efforts of HSR Layout Community Policing Team in June 2017. PIc: Janaagraha
Janaagraha began this initiative five years ago and was operational in around 20 police stations. The HSR wing was close to two years old before it was stopped in January 2018. Today, Janagraha’s initiative is still operational but only in two stations. “Now, the police are going to carry on with community policing by themselves in a couple of months,” informed Deepak Nayak, manager, community policing, Janaagraha. “We are there as their knowledge partners only.”
HSR field associate Kiran for Janaagraha was moved out in December 2017 itself. “The CLO nomination process is going on,” said Nayak. “After that, Dr SP Ganesh (retired DG & IGP, Karnataka) is going to train the CLOs who will run community policing in their respective stations.”
The entire exercise will be spearheaded by Nanjundaswamy, the Additional Commissioner of Police, who will also be the nodal officer for community policing in Bengaluru.
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If you want to know what community policing is all about and how citizens can help and what they can do, read this previous story on community policing done by Residents Watch.