The US delegation, participating in the Indo-US Police Chiefs conference organised by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs in New Delhi, has appreciated Punjab’s community policing programme on Friday.
“Community Policing Programme in Punjab is a unique effort. It has converged e-governance with engaged governance,” said Heyman, the head of US delegation.
For the conference, the Centre has invited only Punjab and Kerala police to present models of community policing.
Punjab ADGP SK Sharma, in his presentation, highlighted that the Saanjh programme provides a dignified forum to the citizens to have an access to police services for resolution of domestic violence and dowry dispute and build citizen and police partnership.
He pointed out that the unique feature was that it has converged community policing with regular policing, institutionalised ad-hoc community policing and made these Saanjh centres self-sustaining.