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Police to tighten monitoring of floating population
KOCHI: The City Police are planning to make monitoring of the floating population coming into the city fool-proof, with the formation of a special wing meant for that and also by roping in the support of residents' associations.
“We are working out a scheme to form a special cell for monitoring this huge population, which will keep on increasing given the spurt in construction activities. With the merging of the Armed Reserve force with the main force, there will be officers to spare. A DySP drawn from this pool could be assigned as the head of this special cell,” City Police Commissioner Manoj Abraham told The Hindu.
The City Police already have a monitoring system for migrant labourers coming in, with details and photographs of those employed in different worksites across the city collected and documented. Even then, there are loopholes that could not be plugged as this population keeps changing, at times on a daily basis.
The system suffered a jolt when three young men from Orissa tried to flee the city after murdering their supervisor. The police nabbed them before they could go beyond their reach, but the incident came as a warning.
“We are also planning to rope in residents' associations in this drive. For the time being, we are studying the nature and flow of the floating population that is coming into the city. Based on that data, we will be asking the residents' associations in those areas to be more vigilant about the presence and movement of strangers,” said Mr. Abraham.
The City Police have revived the interactive platform with residents' association, after a break of nearly one-and-a-half years. The platform, Police Residents' Associations Initiative in District Ernakulam (PRIDE), is mostly used to streamline the communication between police and residents' associations.
As another effort to ensure the cooperation of the associations, the police recently mooted the concept of Cycle Civil Cops (CCC) recently. The police asked residents' associations to appoint a security guard with a cycle to patrol their area between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m.
The police will train these security men and put them on constant interaction with the beat officer in that region. “The system did not take off as intended, with only 23 or 24 residents' associations in the city starting it. However, there has been a good response from areas where they have launched it, especially the ones at Panangad region. This will also be revived soon,” said the Commissioner.
With the launching of these schemes, the police would be able to bring the huge floating population that comes into the city daily under its surveillance more effectively.
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