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‘Collective effort needed to curb terrorism’

BIJAPUR: Deputy Commissioner B.G. Nandkumar said here on Saturday that only collective effort by the police and the public could effectively face the growing terrorism.

Speaking after issuing traffic management training certificates to police personnel he said, “Terrorism, which was earlier limited to remote places such as Jammu and Kashmir, has arrived at our doorstep”. The police alone could not end the problem. Everybody must be alert, and should extend full cooperation to the security agencies, he added.

Mr. Nandkumar said the Indians could learn lessons from Israelis in this regard. In that country, education was given in such a way that everybody would have mental preparedness to do the police duty. Israelis were taught that it was their bonded duty to safeguard the country from all kinds of threat. That was how they could effectively face the hostile forces around them, he said.

His remark came as a reaction to the concern expressed earlier by journalist Shriram Pingle on the fast-spreading terror network, and internal security threat.

On the police-public relations Mr. Pingle called upon the police to behave more soberly with people whether they were poor or rich.

Superintendent of Police Arun Chakravarthy said he had initiated several steps to regulate vehicular traffic in the city ever since his posting in January. Also, steps had been taken to lessen the work pressure of the personnel involved in traffic regulation. Efforts were on to provide facilities such as sunglasses, umbrellas and dust masks to traffic police personnel so that they could work comfortably, he said.

Chanrashekaraiah, a faculty from the Traffic Police Training Institute, Bangalore, spoke. Deputy Superintendent of Police Suryavanshi welcomed.

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