Mysuru, Nov 23: Hundreds of officers and personnel from various wings of the police force including armed police, dog squad, women's police and traffic police took part in a special parade on Saturday organized to mark the silver jubilee of its Commissionerate at the City Armed Reserve (CAR) Grounds in the city. The City Police Commissionerate was set up in 1989 in Mysuru.
Speaking after taking a salute at the special parade, City Police Commissioner Dr M A Saleem said the style of policing needs to change from “police might” to “police service”, to be in line with the changing times.
Dr Saleem advised his colleagues to change their behaviour by conducting themselves with ease and dignity, towards making the department a people-friendly set up.
Referring to some of the complaints he had received against a few police officers, the Commissioner said that the society would no longer accept “arrogant” behaviour from the police. He asked the police personnel to be cool and ever-smiling, yet handle the situation with firmness expected of them.
He appreciated the commitment of the police force in preventing and detecting crime. “Chain snatching incidents have come down. The number of deaths due to road mishaps in the city was 87 so far this year, against the 148 reported last year,” he said and claimed that the City Police stood in the No. 1 spot among the 31 police divisions in the State.
Dr Saleem expressed concern over daylight burglaries being reported in the city and urged the police personnel to track down the culprits by studying their modus operandi. He said the City police will be observing a crime prevention month from December 1 and asked the police personnel to rededicate themselves to the task.
In all, 1,125 police personnel took out a colourful parade at the CAR police grounds. It included 16 troops of Law and Order wing, five of CAR, and one each of Women's, Airport and Wireless Units. Mounted police and sniffer dogs also took part in the parade to the applause of the gathering.
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