The Gurgaon Police on Sunday launched a new initiative known as Udaan, an employment linked skill training programme for underprivileged youth. Director General of Haryana Police Yashpal Singhal, who inaugurated this programme exhorted the police officers to take help of the community in discharging their duty of policing as without the support of community, effective policing is not possible, no matter, how large number of police personnel are deployed.
He said that it is our duty to help the community and take support from them to fight crime. Keep the community by your side for handling crime in an effective way.
Singhal lauded the efforts of Gurgaon Police to start a new initiative Udaan and said that training the underprivileged youth and making them employable will give them an aim in life. Otherwise, they might resort to criminal activities for making both ends meet and will be nuisance in society, at the same time. Such projects will show that the police do positive things and help in building positive image of Police. As many as 60 people would be trained in hospitality in the first batch of Udaan.
He suggested the Director of School of Skill Development in Hospitality (SSDH) Sangeeta Ranjit, who would be imparting training to the underprivileged youth in project Udaan, to start training programme for domestic helps also, as they are in great demand these days. Singhal said that the operation ‘Muskaan’ was going on well in the state and he has been receiving appreciations for this operation from many quarters. A few days back, Union Minister for Foreign Affairs Sushma Swaraj also sent her appreciation.
Earlier, Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) for Community Policing Desraj Singh said that the project Udaan has been launched from Gurgaon and target is to cover every district of Haryana.
Through this project, the Haryana Police is reaching out to the underprivileged and deprived sections of society. The Station House Officers have been entrusted to look for needy persons in their area who could be trained and made employable in hospitality, said he.
Deshraj said that the training will be of two months and it would be totally free. This will help the police in confidence building amongst the general public that police is meant for helping the society. He added that Udaan is first project under community policing and the Haryana Police intends to start two more projects- namely Student Police Cadet Program (SPCP) and Saanjh Kendra.
Under the SPCP project, the students will be trained and apprised about the activities carried out by the police on the pattern of NCC and NSS. They will wear uniform just like police. The project had been successful in states like Kerala.
Under the Saanjh Kendra, senior and respectable citizens will be involved to solve petty cases of crime. They will be provided a separate place or room to sit and they will not wear uniform, rather would be in civil dress. It would be a sort of single window system where application of registration, verification, getting copy of untraceable stolen vehicle, service verification, issuing NOC for pre owned vehicles and other documents. About 20 such activities have been listed and time frame fixed for completing every activity.
He said that this will advertised in media. The project is running successfully in Punjab. On implementation of this project, the SHO will be relieved off the burden of petty cases and he would be able to concentrate on investigations and maintenance of law and order in his area.
It was informed that under the ongoing operation ‘Muskaan’, more than 500 children have been rescued and sent to their families. And, more than 200 children were sent to child care homes.