The community policing scheme of the Kerala Police named ‘Janamaithri Suraksha Paddhathi,’ is being implemented on an experimental basis in the three police station limits each in the Kozhikode, Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram.
The municipalities where the pilot project would be implemented are Kasaragod, Payyannur, Kalpetta, Perinthalmanna, Ottappalam, Irinjalakuda, Thodupuzha, Adoor, Cherthala, Paravur and Vaikom.
The project has the security of the community as its prime objective and the effort of the department would be to achieve this with people’s participation and closer liaison between the police and the general public.
Specially trained beat officers would be posted in the police station areas coming under the scheme.
Each beat officer would cover 500 houses or three square kilometre area, whichever is less, on a regular basis and establish contact with each home under his/her jurisdiction.
The beat officer would lead night patrolling in the locality with people’s participation, coordinate with the private security guards in the area, identify and keep track of strangers visiting the locality, help prevent drug peddling and atrocities on women and offer protection to the elderly. Each beat officer would be given a motorbike and a mobile phone.
Problems that cannot be solved at the level of the beat officer would be referred to the higher officers at the local police station or SHOs. Popular committees, with an approximate membership of 10, would be formed in each police station limits.
The committees would play the role of facilitators and would not have any role in maintenance of law and order.
The progress of the scheme would be reviewed every three months and the department expected it to take at least a year to stabilise.
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