Tribune News Service
Call for installation of police complaint boxes
Jammu, February 4/2013
A Jammu-based activist Raman Sharma has accused the state Police Headquarters of maintaining a silence on installation of police complaint boxes at police stations and main markets of the state.
Sharma, who has filed a petition with the Chief Minister Grievance Cell, said that the police on the directions of the then Director General of Police (DGP) had installed various complaint boxes or mail boxes outside every police station and in the main markets in each town of the state a few years ago where the citizens can directly submit their complaint to the Director General of Police.
Initially, this initiative by the police gathered lot of attention and bridged the gap between the police and people, but slowly, due to negligence of junior officers of the department, these complaint boxes gathered dust and ultimately became defunct, he alleged.
To awaken the police authorities from their deep slumber, he said he filed a petition with the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah through his Grievance Cell on December 29, 2012.
“Unfortunately, for the last 1 to 2 years, these co plaint boxes have either been removed or in some cases damaged and even without any lock. I urge the Chief Minister that the state police department should be directed to ensure installation of these complaint boxes and also for necessary service of the damaged complaint boxes,” Sharma said.
He said that Chief Minister’s office, within two days, forwarded it to the Director General of Police (DGP), but despite four reminders since then, no intimation had been received from the police headquarters.
He questioned the silence of police headquarters on the issue and urged the Director General of Police to issue directions to his officers for installation of complaint boxes at the earliest.
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