Cops drive down to needy with food

Sanjay Sahay | TNN | Apr 9, 2020, 06:00 IST

Ranchi: Ranchi Police are not only feeding the needy through the community kitchens, set up at various police stations, but are also moving around the city with cooked food to feed the poor, including children and women.
Every day the cops stock their patrolling vehicles with cooked food and distribute them among the needy. A stranded family of four from Jhalda, who are currently living in the streets in the Lower Bazaar police station area, was pleasantly surprised when the police approached them with food and drinking water on Monday. The police team, including sub inspector ranked officer Shiv Narayan Tiwary, visited the family on Wednesday and offered them food. Tiwary said, “The family is extremely poor. I found both the children without clothes today as the only clothes they own had to be washed today. I have purchased clothes for the kids and a sari for their mother and would give them to the family on Thursday.”
The officer-in-charge of Lower Bazaar police station, Satish Kumar, said police have formed two teams in this regrad, one for preparing the food at the police station and and another for the distribution.
City DSP Amit Kumar Singh said, “Similar teams have been formed in all the 18 police stations of Ranchi district. Many people are unable to come to the police station due to lack of awareness and physical disability. We are providing them food regularly. In many cases, women living alone are being given food at their doorsteps.”
The Ranchi Police’s efforts got a thumbs up from the director general of police in Jharkhand, M V Rao, who appreciated their work on Twitter, especially that of S N Tiwary, an officer at the Lower Bazaar police station.