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Interview
THE PROTECTOR
Police Initiatives Put
People on Perpetual
‘Alert Mode’
Mumbai police believes in being pro-active than wait
for an incident to occur and respond to it. Various
initiatives launched by Mumbai Police are part of the
proactive philosophy. These range from traditional
Area (Mohalla) Peace Committees to the ambitious
'Jagrut Mumbaikar' project to cover hundreds of
housing societies to sensitize their residents to the
constantly looming threat perception. The response,
according to Additional Commissioner of Police
(Security) Vinay Kargoankar, has been very
encouraging. Following are excerpts from an
interview with him.
What are the various ongoing Police personnel and had
initiatives that Mumbai Police presentations and discussions on
has taken to make the citizens relevant topics. Jagrut
aware of their role in ensuring Mumbaikar was planned to as an
their own safety and security? even bigger programme and the
The two initiatives that Mumbai
Police have undertaken so far are
Alert Mumbaikar and Jagrut
Mumbaikar. Alert Mumbaikar
focused on the fact that although
Mumbaikars were aware that
there was and is a threat
platform of housing societies was
chosen so as to give a greater
exposure to the citizens on all
aspects of security, from terror
issues to disaster problems. This
programme was started in March
this year is still ongoing.
perception to Mumbai, most What has been the progress of
were not alert to their the initiative Jagrut
environment and changes Mumbaikar and the public's
happening around them. response to it?
Information branding was put up
at 156,000 touch points across
Mumbai and workshops were
carried out in 126 colleges in the
city. Students interacted with
The campaign is still going on
and we have successfully
completed the session in 30 plus
societies. As police personnel are
interacting with citizens at their
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