With the beginning of the New Year, the Indore police have decided to go active online on mobile Apps and social media — stretching a helping hand to the common people. Turning hectic in their work, the Indore cops are now on Whatsapp, Facebook and Twitter.
Now, anybody can post their problems on these social media and the police would attend the calls without any delay. New project Crime Watch has the required information for the safety of people of Indore. It is an online initiative of Indore police in which one can inform Indore police anytime, from anywhere for any type of crime and the informer’s identity would be kept confidential.
Anybody can connect to the page Crime Watch Indore on Facebook, to CrimeWatchind in Twitter, to the website on Crimewatchindore.in. Whatsapp number is 7049124445, mobile number 7049124444 and landline number is 07312510317.
On trial basis, this project was started for a month on December 1, 2015. A total of 872 calls were received on Crime Watch online platforms. The common complaints that came were of eve teasing by college going girls and girls hostellers, the boys complained about Whatsapp message circulated in the group against the religions, the common man complained about the sale of liquor, gambling and satta.
The old people complained about their children and daughter-in-laws troubling them. Besides this the problem of traffic jams, accidents and suspicious people and suspicious activities in beauty parlors, spas and massage parlours and farmhouses were also received by the Crime Watch team.
After receiving the information by Crime Watch cell the policemen and PCR van of that area are informed and the police immediately reach the spot.
DIG Indore Santosh Kumar Singh told The Pioneer that besides the regular police number 100 and 1090 (women help line number), this police watch number will be very helpful to curb the crimes as in this the identity of the complainant is 100 per cent kept secret so that he won’t get harmed by the person about whom he complains. “We are keeping round the clock vigil in the city and on the State highways with the eagle eyes on the antisocial elements. We are committed ourselves to weed out the antisocial elements at the grass root level.