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Community Policing Projects
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The following are the community policing projects that have been implemented by the team of OrgPEOPLE on behalf of and in active association with senior officers and personnel of the Kerala Police
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"Reach Out to the People"
Programme for Kerala Police, Thrissur District
This programme was implemented as a District-wide community outreach programme by senior police officers of Thrissur District Police, which comprised interactive meetings between senior police officials including the DIG (Thrissur Range), SP, Thrissur and various citizens? groups comprising prominent citizens of the District. (Sep 2003 onwards ? ongoing)
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"Reach Out to Students"
School-based programme for Kerala Police, Thrissur District
This School Visits programme for senior police officers of the District was designed to supplement the community outreach | |
programmes being implemented by the Thrissur Police; specifically targeting the student community,
the future citizens of the country. This programme was implemented with the active involvement of school managements, teachers, prominent citizens and police officers of the District. The programme was later extended to include the colleges in Thrissur as well. (Sep 2003 onwards - ongoing)
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"Nammude Police Namukku Vendi"
For Kerala Police, Thrissur District
This District-wide outreach programme of the Thrissur Police was carried out with the support and involvement of elected people?s representatives of the District. As part of this programme, special interaction meetings were arranged between senior police officers and local elected people?s representatives from the local self government bodies, such as Block and Gramapanchayaths. In most places, this was the first time in the history of policing in
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Kerala that local people?s representatives and police officials met to discuss solutions to local issues affecting the public, in a non-confrontational setting. A significant feature of such meetings, usually held at the initiative of the senior police officers in a given area, was the high percentage of attendance by the invitees, indicating a great degree of interest among the people?s representatives in working closely with the police. (February 2004 onwards)
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"From the SP?s Chamber"
Visual media programme for Kerala Police, Thrissur District
This project involved a series of educational and informative visual media programmes focusing on the duties, responsibilities and functioning of the police organization. These included daily duties of police personnel, the functioning of police stations, field work as carried out by traffic policemen on the streets, etc; as described by working policemen themselves. Weekly episodes were telecast on cable TV networks throughout the District. All ranks of police
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officers from the District Superintendent of Police to the police constable were featured in this programme, which was well received by the viewers throughout the District. (May - June 2005)
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