Sp's Editoral May 2004 - Archives - Thrissur Police.com - The official Website of Thrissur Police

Dear friends,

With the cooperation and best wishes of all of you "Thrissur Pooram 2004" went of peacefully in spite of the sad demise of the licensee of Thiruvambady fireworks program. It was pure accident, which led to his death.
The 'Kudamattom' was excellent as well as 'Elanjithara meleam' and of course the fireworks display in the early hours of the day.
You must understand the amount of work put in by the police, Pooram festival committee and others to make this a great show and a peaceful show at that no incidents to make the festivities.
My self and the district collector checked each and every installations for the fireworks to ensure that there are no lose ends and that all the items go straight up one and not in to the festive crowd. For this the people also cooperated by not interfering with our duties and obeying all reasonable directions by us. It is to the credit of the traffic police and the vehicle usage on the road that there was no major traffic jams on the road. I think the small in variances people enjoying considering it as a part and parcel of the all festivities.
Once again, thank you very much for the citizens and congratulations to my colleagues for a good job neatly done.
Pooram was closely followed by the visit of Matha Amrithanadhamayi on the 4th May is also went of peacefully even though thousands and thousands of people attended the function. The devotees were orderly and the volunteers very obliging. There was not much for the police to do accept for their reassuring presence. We where to meet any eventuality but nothing requiring our action happened.
Now the preparations for the election on 10th May 2004 have started in earnest. The police department on our part is read in all respects. We have carried out route marches with CRPF, local police and armed reserve in all the places where there were political and communal disturbances earlier. This was one to reassure the people that we are here and ready to meet any eventuality.
Here also we need the co-operation of the citizens in general and political parties especially to ensure a free and fair election where all citizens desiring to exercise that franchise can do without fear. I hope all of you will cooperate to the fullest extent.

Thanking you,

G. Janardhanan Nair IPS

12 may 2004

Dear friends,

The elections to the Loksabha and bye-elections to Vadakkanchery have also passed off peacefully just like Thrissur Pooram 2004. We do not expect any major problems during counting on 13th May.
That means the recent major law and order events have passed off peacefully and we can think about routine matters once again.
Now we intend to continue the " Nammude Police Namukku Vendi" programme by carrying out the meetings in the remaining Blocks also. The people representatives can take part in the programmes with out any technical hitches.
We want to take the interactive meetings further down the line. With that in view we have called for a meeting of the chairmen of Municipalities and 92 Panchayat Presidents of the District on the 17th May. In the meeting the discussion will be 'how to increase Police - public interaction and co-operation?' and 'how to develop the infra structure in police stations so that the police station become more useful and friendly for the public'. These things can be done with governmental help also but that takes time.
The meetings at Grama Panchayat level would give more opportunities for the community members to air their grievances and opinions more freely. More over the local problems peculiar to the area could be aired and addressed more conveniently.
I solicit the blessings and cooperation of all concerned in this effort. I also solicit suggestions for issuing more interactive booklets on other issues also.
I also request the citizens of the District working abroad to obtain and sent such kinds of booklets being circulated by police of these countries so that it can be efficiently used in our District also. The ideas can be imbibed and converted to cope with realities of District. Our website is observed by persons from about 40 countries and I hope that there will be sure response.

Thanking you,

G. Janardhanan Nair IPS

25 may 2004

Dear friends,

Our community policing initiative has been temporarily stopped due to the elections. Now the same has been revived.
The first step was an interactive meeting with the elected representatives of the people ie., Grama Panchayat Presidents and Municipal Chairpersons. The district Panchayat President and Thrissur Corporation Mayor were also invited to attend the function. About 99 persons attended the meeting. A large number took part in the deliberations.
Interactive meeting had been conducted in 9 blocks with the co-operation of the District Panchayat earlier. In those meetings participants have demanded that such meetings may be conducted at the lower level ie., Grama Panchayat level also. It was to consider this proposal that this meeting was convened. There was also a proposal to enhance the infrastructural facilities in the police stations including facilities for the public visiting the police stations.
All the participants agreed that monthly interactive meetings at Grama Panchayat level were necessary. It was decided to let the CIs hold preliminary meetings to decide the dates on which the monthly meetings can be held. They will then report the result to the SP and another meeting of all concerned will be held after three months to review the progress.
I hope that the above programme will give opportunity to the citizens to air their grievances, complaints and suggestion at the local level. At higher levels their complaints will be considered in-significant in the light of major problems that will be raised by others. Now small local problems also will get the attention of police force and remedial action will be taken. Serious problems will be handled by senior officers. There will also be a free flow of information useful to the Police department as well as the public. With the enhancement of infrastructural facilities at police station level we will be able to deliver better service to the people.
I hope this will start a new age of fruitful communication between the police and public and the cooperation thus started will spread to other areas of public life for the betterment of the citizens of our district.

Thanking you,

G. Janardhanan Nair IPS