Deputy Inspector General of Police in Palamu range, Saket Kumar Singh is up for a change of face of the cops here and his superintendent of police Garhwa Priyadarshi Aloke takes a leap for this.
Terming SP Garhwa's work as 'very good' DIG said this young IPS officer has got ready a list of blood donors among the cops in Garhwa with cell phone numbers of cop donors available with blood bank in Garhwa wherein a call to the definite blood group cop donor assures a unit of blood to the needy in time.
DIG said a cop donor gave his blood and saved the life of a critically sick woman patient in Garhwa recently. Sources said DGP Jharkhand DK Pandey wants to connect police to public by means of services like this blood donation and afforestation. This DIG police Palamu has done more plantations than any of the official of the forest department here in this range said a police officer in Daltonganj.
He wants this facility of blood donation to be available in Palamu and latehar added DIG. He said Garhwa SP has got prepared a list of rare negative blood group cops who are motivated to donate blood.
'The image is that police khoon chus letee hai but here it is the cop who gives blood to save lives' said DIG.
There are in all 2,000 jawans and officials including arms and the men of the CRPF and if there is held a blood donation camp a month there will never be any shortage of donors pleaded DIG.
So overwhelmed was the DIG that he said ' We would like to have such blood donation camp to be held in places like Bhandrarya and Manatu'. But when reminded that donated blood needs to be adequately preserved and conserved and long distance collection of donated blood faces risk of journey jerks on roads the DIG had a second thought on this.
He said ' We will continue holding blood donation camps in district towns like latehar, Daltonganj and Garhwa.
A blood donation camp was held in Garhwa police line on Thursday October 15 wherein 50 plus units of blood were collected from the cops said DIG. Among the prominent blood donors were Commandant of the CRPF and an IAS probationer there too.
This blood donation camp was held in the kind remembrance of the cops who laid down their lives fighting extremists. On October 21 police are to commemorate its martyrs and this blood donation camp is dedicated to the martyrs reminded Saket.
A cop after donating blood was served juices, fruits and lots of liquid. DIG conceded that women cops do not come forward to donate blood and blood donation continues to be a male's choice only. He reassured the Pioneer ' let me see in Daltonganj I will motivate female cops to give blood also. See how they react to it'.