Daijiworld Media Network – Puttur (EP)

Puttur, Jul 5: Considering that people are scared or hesitate to go to the police station, the police department has started a novel programme of police beats in the villages from July 3.

Started in four districts of the Western Range region under the IGP, several villages have been included on the trial basis. Now the people in villages do not have to go to the police station, because the police come to the villages and visit the houses to listen to their problems.

In this new concept, a constable is assigned the responsibility of a certain number of gramas in a particular police station limits. He is like a sub inspector there. He should solve the problems there and later inform about them to the seniors. The police will be in the grama for fifteen days in a month.

The constable will visit houses. He will take the people into confidence before registering complaints regarding problems relating to issue of passport, summons, warrant etc.

A constable will be in charge of a minimum of four grams to start with. If the number of staff increases, the number of gramas in their care may come down. The concept will enter towns and cities also soon where some wards will be serviced by the constable.