Bangalore: 'Crime Stoppers' — A Talk to Create Citizen Awareness


News from Jessie Rodrigues
For Daijiworld Media Network—Bangalore (CN)

Bangalore, Sep 29: The Residents' Welfare Association, Bangalore East (REWABE), organized a talk on 'Crime Stoppers' for the residents of Bangalore East. The talk was delivered by P M Kalappa, chief executive, Crime Stoppers India, at Don Bosco Provincial, Milton Street, Cooke Town at 6 pm. Kalappa was formerly superintendent of police.

Crime Stoppers is a non-governmental, non-profit, voluntary, initiative to fight the menace of crime, and corruption, which was first founded in Hyderabad and is now also in Bangalore.

Vaidyanathan, president, Rewabe, welcomed the gathering and introduced chief guest. Kalappa enlightened the audience about crime stoppers, its functions, and about collecting information ensuring anonymity and safety of individuals, so as to achieve effective action by the police or other government agencies.

This was followed by an interactive session wherein the participants cleared their doubts mainly about the revelation of identity. Kalappa assured that enough care is taken to safeguard the identity of the informant.

Jessie Rodrigues, vice-president, Rewabe, assured Kalappa of the gathering's support and help in this initiative aimed at a crime free society. Secretary Jayanthi proposed the vote of thanks. 

  

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  • Walter Saldanha, mangalore

    Mon, Sep 29 2008

    Congratulations 'Crime Stoppers' India needs you now, more than anybody. The public are really fed up with the political parties. These political parties spend the money of the public, and most of the time spend in fighting with each other, for their survival, where is the development. They feel that they have made a favour by sanctioning the money for different projects. It is people's money. The public should know the details of how much sanctioned money has been spent for each project. Then the corruption could be curtailed.

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