Mangalore: Volunteers to Assist Traffic Police in City - 10 PCR Vehicles Get Kits
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Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (PS/SB)
Mangalore, Apr 19: Mangalore City Police Commissionerate which has been provided with 10 new GPS-fitted Police Control Room (PCR) vehicles and 30 new motorcycles for patrol under its limits 3 months ago, witnessed considerable control in ordinary theft cases, and received good response from the public, said commissioner Seemanth Kumar Singh on Tuesday April 19.
For all the 10 PCR vehicles, kits including extra items like reflector gloves, electric batons, fire extinguisher equipment, rain coats to shield heavy monsoon and rope among others have been added now to counter any crime or accident scene.
Order for procurement of first set of cameras has been already made, and they will be delivered next week. The commisionerate will also procure Rs 30 lac worth traffic equipment such as signage and reflector boards. Zebra crossing will be repainted everywhere in the city and MCC will call for tender for the same work, Singh added.
Pointing out the decrease in the crime figures, he detailed comparing to 2009 figures that crime figure has decreased by 25 %. In all 902 cases have been registered in 2009, 869 cases in 2010, which has come down to 826 in the corresponding year, he said.
He proposed a new traffic control system, wherein volunteers from various organizations will be deputed on traffic duty to help the traffic police. Interested can get themselves registered in respective police stations on or before April 26, he added. The volunteers will be provided uniforms. The system has been working out good in Bangalore, he noted.
To a query by media persons, he said that children's special police cell is operating in all the police stations under the commisionerate.