Gentleman should be treated with gentleness and the criminals should be treated with strictness,” said Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, while addressing a programme ‘Hamari Police Kaisi Ho’ which was inaugurated at the Motilal Nehru Stadium here on Saturday.
While inaugurating the programme Director General of Police Nandan Dube informed that theme of the programme was to bring better bonding and developing healthy relationships between police and people so that police would work to fulfil hope and expectations of the people.
State’s top police officer also disclosed that lack of evidences and wrong information have sometimes led to suffer many innocent people during police investigation. Correct and factual information should be provided to the police who could help in nabbing the real culprit who has committed the crime.
Additional Director General of Police Pavan Jain said the primary responsibility of the police was to maintain law and order but with a new kind of problems arises in the form of cyber crime, financial frauds and other crimes committed using advance technology the responsibility of police has also increased. The extension in the number of crimes requires redefining the role of police and active participation of the people to help them serve well as police personnel is also a human being and has limits and responsibilities.
Deputy Inspector General of Police Bhopal, Shrinivasa Varma claimed that people expects solution of every problem from police but with the increased population and unemployment problems of many types of crimes have also been witnessed and people expected to solve these cases speedily. Bhopal police have started steps to fulfil expectations of people which will increase confidence of masses in police.
Renowned poet Surendra Sharma said that the police had to act according to the needs of the society. It was hard to make a
balance between different approaches as strict action attracts allegations of human right violations and lenient action attracts allegations of negligence.