The Bhawanigarh police station of Sangrur and Mansa Saanjh Kendra have been adjudged best police station and Kendra during annual police station visitors week (PSVW) programme organized by Altus Global Alliance through Institute for Development and Communication (IDC) from amongst 396 police stations of four states and Union Territory of Assam, Chandigarh, Meghalaya and Punjab.
The states covered included Assam, Meghalaya and Punjab and UT of Chandigarh.
These annual visits by groups of citizens to local police stations are coordinated globally to produce comparable scores on five dimensions of police service — which is Community Orientation, Physical conditions, equal treatment of public without bias based on age, gender, ethnicity, nationality, minority or sexual orientation, Transparency and accountability; and Detention condition.
SK Sharma, ADGP (Human Resource Development and Community Policing), Punjab Police, mentioned that Punjab has converged Saanjh Community Policing Programme with the police reform.
The main purpose is to improve the service delivery through citizen participatory policing.
A total of 396 police stations participated by welcoming 3,646 citizens to assess their stations. Citizens included members of NGOs, community liasoning groups, market committees, resident welfare associations, lawyers, women’s organisations, village representatives, slum dwellers, students and eminent civil society members.
Police Station Bhawanigarh, Sangrur, Punjab was assessed as the top police station from among participatory police stations.
The award for consistency in performance was given to Chandigarh’s top assessed police station Sector 17.