Law-abiding societies to be felicitated

Nimesh Khakhariya | TNN | Apr 27, 2020, 04:24 IST

Rajkot: A group of city police may come calling at your doorsteps, albeit not to take any legal action, but to entertain you!
In a unique way of honouring housing societies that have strictly followed the lockdown rules, the police department has decided to honour their cooperation by entertaining them with the music of police band.
These housing societies, whose residents have been law-abiding, will also be given a certificate of appreciation signed by the city police commissioner. The move is aimed at encouraging people to follow lockdown rules and not venture out on the roads without any plausible reason.
Officials said that they have chalked out a list of criteria for societies to be given this recognition. The societies will have to start register on a cell phone number of Durga Shakti, a dedicated team of women cops.
Talking to TOI, police commissioner Manoj Agarwal said, “We have already received applications from nearly 30 societies after the competition was declared open. A police inspector under the supervision of assistant commissioner of police will visit the societies registered and verify their claims.”
Agarwal said, “After checking the parameters followed by the society, which will take few days, we will give all the eligible ones due recognition. We will hand over a certificate and our police band will entertain the society members for 20-30 minutes. People can join the music from balconies and windows.”
Mansukh Thummar, president of Surbhi Society in Kothariya said, "We don't allow anybody to go outside of our society and only two two residents have been deputed to bring essentials . One vegetable vendor comes every day and women turns to purchase by maintaining social distancing."