By Abdul Gani, TwoCircles.net,
Guwahati: To better the relationship with public Assam Police has initiated several innovative measures. Among them the cops of the state is organizing a debate competition so that feelings of the general public can be heard besides the annual quiz competition on Assam Police Day which will be observed on October 1 across the state.
The debate competition, ‘Cop Talk’ open for all, with the theme -‘In democracy-police is in conflict with public aspirations’ is aimed to generate ideas from public who will be debating over police’s role in the society at District library in Guwahati.
Assam DGP Jayanta Narayan Choudhury addressing a press conference regarding the programmes on Assam Police Day
“Police reform is the need of the hour and it needs a healthy police-public relationship. On many occasions we face allegations of not acting properly or responding to a situation. That’s why we’ve chosen the topic of the debate in such a manner so that we can understand the public in a better manner and know their aspirations from us in present day context which will help us in many ways to maintain law and order,” Assam DGP Jayanta Narayan Choudhury told reporters in a press conference in Guwahati on Wednesday.
Additional Director General of Police Dilip Borah who was also present during the conference said that the public opinions which will be generated through the debate competition, scheduled on September 28 will help police to understand public in a better way.
“We want more and more participation in the competition from all age groups. The participants will surely throw light on various aspects of policing and will give us an array of ideas which we will be able to incorporate in the system in future,” said Borah.
This time the Assam Police Day will also witness the annual ‘Cop Quest’, a quiz competition with the theme of various police and traffic laws especially. The state police has been observing the ‘Assam Police Day’ since 2000.