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Police roll call system to go

— FILE PHOTO: K. GOPINATHAN

The new system is expected to lend dignity to the constabulary.

BANGALORE: The police roll call system, part of the colonial legacy that continues to this day, is now being scrapped, and in its place a new system will be introduced to lend dignity to the police constabulary.

Of the nearly one lakh-strong State police force, constables constitute nearly 95 per cent, and the new system has been designed to serve as a morale booster to them.

Roll call is marking of the daily attendance of police constables and head constables in police stations.

This is done every evening and the personnel are also briefed on their following day's work by the station house officers.

Henceforth, they can take notes and it will be called a “briefing session”.

The new police stations will have briefing halls and the roll call done in the open will become a thing of the past.

Director-General and Inspector-General of Police S.T. Ramesh has, after a detailed study of the behavioural pattern of police constables and understanding the need to boost their morale, decided to bring in several reforms largely aimed at introducing changes in the functioning of the police.

A circular is being issued to all the 1,000 police stations to stop roll call and in its place, introduce a briefing session. It is another matter that the eight-hour duty system is yet to be strictly enforced in the police force in view of the paucity of staff and the increasing volume of work directly related to the increasing crimes.

Mr. Ramesh told The Hindu that it is unfortunate that police constables do not even have a writing table and a chair leave alone a work station which ought to be provided to each one of them.

Henceforth, all the new police stations will have proper infrastructure. There will also be a reception area where people will be greeted with a smile.

Constables will be provided with lockers to keep their personal belongings, and lockups will have an attached toilet. There will also be an interrogation room. He said that 25 new police station buildings will be constructed this year and all of them will incorporate the new features.

It has also been decided to have spacious police stations. While there are around 10 constables serving in each of the rural police stations, there are nearly 100 men serving in each of the police stations in major cities such as Bangalore.

Apart from this are the police personnel serving in the armed reserve force, including the 11 battalions of the Karnataka State Reserve Police with each battalion comprising nearly a 1,000 personnel.

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