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Community Policing Projects
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"Road Buddhu Mandan Sarathi"
Road Safety Awareness Campaigns for School Students
Innovative art-based activity-oriented programmes wherein the creative
ability of students were directed towards promoted of Road safety within communities. As part of this programme, specially designed brochures and posters involving characters named as ?Road Buddhu? (Road Fool) and ?Mandan Sarathi? (Stupid Driver) were developed and distributed widely among school students. Subsequently, activities such as art/cartoon competitions, quiz and essay events, etc.were organized to involve the students in a creative campaign to encourage safe use of the public roads. Participation certificates were also distributed among the winners and participants. These events were held in schools in the districts of Thrissur, Palakkad and Malappuram
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"Aashayavinimayam Samoohavijayam"
A community-interaction programme with elected people?s representatives, Thrissur Range
Based on the results and feedback from the District-level community-focused projects implemented in the District of Thrissur, attempts were made to extend this experience to the other nearby Districts as well. In the presence of Sri Ravada Chandrasekhar IPS, the then DIG of Police (Thrissur Range), senior
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police officers in each District held interactive meetings on a regular basis with elected people?s representatives within each District comprising Thrissur Range, viz. Thrissur, Palakkad and Malappuram. As a followup to this programme, regular police-people meetings at the police station level, continued to be held involving local elected panchayath members and police personnel, in all three districts. (Aug 2005 ? March 2006)
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"Swaraksha Sahayakendram"
Helpline for Women and Children
Under the leadership of Dr B Sandhya IPS, the DIG of Police (Thrissur Range), a special Police Helpline number for Women and Children was set up in each of the three Districts of Thrissur, Palakkad and Malappuram. This telephone centre, manned round-the-clock by a team of trained women police personnel, enabled members of the weaker and vulnerable sections of the community to call for and avail of prompt assistance from police personnel at the nearest police station. On a large number of occasions, the facility was found to be beneficial to such needy members
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of the community, especially at night-time. An awareness campaign with specially developed multimedia materials such as posters, bumper stickers and wallet cards were made use of to publicize the existence of the facility.
(launch of programme: Sep 2006)
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