Police Commissioner T R Suresh Inaugurates Crime Prevention Month
Mangaluru: To mark the crime prevention month, police commissioner T R Suresh flagged off the Jatha from the Town Hall premises which culminated at the Police Community Hall here on December 9.
The programme began with an invocation. DCP Law and Order Hanumantharaya welcomed the gathering. Police Commissioner T R Suresh inaugurated the programme by lighting the traditional lamp along with other dignitaries.
Addressing the gathering Police Commissioner T R Suresh said, “To mark the crime prevention month, every year the police department is holding a month-long awareness programme for the general public, especially for students and women. Through various programmes we are trying to bring awareness on crimes and how to prevent them. Most of the women and children are victims of crime, hence we are organizing awareness programmes in schools and colleges”.
T R Suresh further said, “Prevention is very much important in crime. If awareness is brought among the people in the society we can prevent crime. We need to bring awareness to the general public to be safe. We are giving priority to prevent crime, the police alone cannot prevent crime. We need support from the general public, women, students and organizations in this work. If we recall the crime rate 30 years back, now the mode of crime is different. We need to be prepared to prevent the present day crimes.”
Resource person Dr Mahabala Shetty said, “This is a unique programme and first of its kind in the country initiated by ACP Uday Naik and this awareness programme is being conducted in every school. Why the age of 20 to 22 years is important? In the human brain significant development of the prefrontal region occurs during adolescence at the age of 20 to 22. We often struggle to make good decisions when we are teenagers, but as we enter our 20 – 22s, our decision making improves. This is due to the fact that our prefrontal cortex helps us think logically and we make more calculated assessments of situations. Our brain weighs the risks and tells us whether a certain behavior or choice is a good idea against a bad one. The teaching profession creates all vocations. A student spends most of the time in the school or college and the teacher should play a vital role in molding the students. If any student is facing any problem or is addicted to bad habits his friends should inform the teacher or parents. The role of the teacher is to tell what is good and what is bad.”
Dr Mahabala Shetty further said, “In India we have many laws, if anyone teases a girl or tries to send messages through WhatsApp continuously and the girl is not interested to have any relationship, she should go to the police station and file a complaint against the person. Policing is not to stop the crime but policing is to maintain the law and order. If any student faces any problems specially related to drugs please inform the teacher or his friends. We need to have good as well as bad friends. Students should take the good things from their friends, all friends are not bad. Any person using anything continously for 20 days he or she gets addicted. Addiction is not only to drugs there is addiction of two kinds, one is legal and the other is illegal. Legal addiction is alcohol, smoking and medicine, illegal addiction is consuming drugs and many other substances.”
ACP Uday Nayak, ACP Ram Rao, ACP Manjunath Shetty, ACP Rajendra, corporator Sabitha Misquith and others were also present.