Locals to help cops man Gzb

| | GHAZIABAD

Now, citizen volunteers will help local police in manning the law and order in the area and will act as their eyes and ears. With the Director General of UP Police, OP Singh, giving his nod for the formation of Citizens Volunteers Force (CVF) police will now engage people from all walks of life in policing.

The concept is said to be the “brain-child” of Akash Tomar, the Superintendent of Police (SP) of Ghaziabad. These volunteers will keep a check on illegal activities and persons in their areas and will dial 100 to inform police about any unusual or illegal activity.

“The DGP in his letter dated July 13 to all the ADGs, IGs and SSPs across the State has asked to spread the wings of CVF digitally to the 1469 police stations located across the State” said Tomar. These volunteers will also help in countering the rumours spread on the social media through viral check twitter handle — @uppviral check — of UP Police. These volunteers will be included in the WhatsApp group of their respective police stations

A group of 250 digital volunteers which will include teachers, retired army persons, police pensioners, journalists, social organisations, councilors, BDC members, village Pradhan, student leaders, doctors, lawyers, main businessmen and priests of temples/ mosques. 

The Senior Superintendent of Police would initiate the formation of WhatsApp groups at police station level. The Station House Officers and Circle Officers would be the admin of the groups. The group members would be included after filling online forms and proper assessment of their bio data. The bio data of applicants is required to be linked with the UP police website and a folder of their database is to be maintained at the police station and SSP office level. Such database should be sent to prodgp-up@nic.in.

Volunteers are also required to give information about unknown persons staying in the hotels and guest houses in the area. Also they will assist police force in maintaining communal harmony in the area and convincing violent mob.