It all did happen in the late 60s and early 70s when the whole of Calcutta (Kolkata) and Bengal was tumultuous on account of the Naxalite Movement in full swing. Even though several harsh methods (that have remained focal points of human rights organizations yet) were used, Calcutta Police, especially its IB and Special Branch were able to quell the intensity and earned the title “Scotland Yard of the East.” There was hardly any presence of new technology but the Calcutta Police emerged victorious thanks to strong public-police coordination. The question remains whether the Indian Police force still enjoys the same confidence.
All these are being asked since Dakshina Kannada district police of the state of Karnataka has launched its own website - www.dkpolice.org and it hopes that this will lead to a new chapter of professionalism, greater competence and much more.
It has to be stated that the same district police did start blog (spdk.blogspot.com) as a public-police interface four years ago, an unique experiment and first-of-its-kind in India. The blog, without a shred of doubt, became popular and inspired many district police units in Karnataka as well as across India to do the same. It has been learnt that this exceptional official police blog will be yanked off the net before long and become an integral part of the official police website, under its own domain.
On the word of B Dayananda, SP at the time of launching the blog and now Deputy Inspector-General of Police (Intelligence), while the blog started by him was a novel concept in the police department, websites were not new. "Many district police units in India, and abroad started their websites, but majority of them are not regularly updated or are in a state of limbo," he said to TOI.
The website maintained and designed by Goal IT Solutions, Mangalore, has been funded owing to special innovations project fund given by DGP Ajai Kumar Singh. This is the first time ever that the district police have received such funding such efforts are on to make the website more comprehensible, SP said.
We end with a humble question. Can the new tech-savvy Indian Police assure us of a better security? Can it surpass the feats of Calcutta Police?
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