| Ticketing system to check, control wrong parking launched | | | Early Times Report
UDHAMPUR, Nov 17: Udhampur Police today launched the first Mounted Police Squad in Jammu and Kashmir for crime control and maintenance of law and order in busy markets and By-lanes.
Rajesh Kumar Yadav, IPS, Director, Sher-i-Kashmir Police Academy Udhampur was chief guest on the occasion, who flagged off the first ever Mounted squad of District Police Udhampur in the presence of Surinder Gupta,IPS, Inspector General of Police, Neeraj Kumar, IAS Deputy Commissioner, Udhampur and other prominent citizens and dignitaries of district Udhampur.
Police is initially going to deploy Mounted Police Squads in Udhampur town and the scheme, if succeeded, would be implemented in other busy towns, Hilly areas and the areas where the vehicular movement is not practically possible.
Unlike the traditional policing practices, Mounted Police Squad of Udhampur Police will perform its crime/L&O duties, mounted on horses well dressed in riding uniforms and equipped with L&O equipments/wireless sets/pistols and handy PA systems as per requirement.
Because of their mobile mass and height advantage, Mounted Police is increasingly used in UK for crime prevention and high visibility policing roles like crowd control.
The added height and visibility that the horses give their riders not only allow officers to observe a wider area, but it also allows people in the wider area to see the officers, which acts as a deterrence on the trouble makers besides helps people, find Mounted Police officers, when they need them.
It is commonly said that a mounted police officer is comparable to ten or more officers on foot during L&O situations. In future, similar Mounted police squads would be deployed for specialized duties ranging from mela duties, free style wrestling events, patrol of parks and wilderness/forest areas, where deploying police cars would be impractical or noisy, on riot control duty, where the horse serves to intimidate those whom it is desired to disperse through its larger size, or may be sent in to detain trouble makers or offenders from the crowd.
The most visible duties of a mounted police officer are conducting patrols on horseback and assisting with crowd control at events. Mounted officers are very effective in crowd control roles.
Mounted officers may also be involved with other duties such as search and rescue operations, traffic control, and pursuit of suspects.
Besides this, a ticketing system to check and control wrong parking was also launched by Udhampur Police which is going to be made operational w.e.f 25/11/2016, wherein the people doing wrong parking would be warned by announcements twice by to take away their wrongly vehicles through handy PA Systems issued to these Horse riders besides other police patrol teams, followed by pasting a ticket designed by district police on their vehicle to face legal action accordingly.
This is a Joint effort of District Police Udhampur, District Administration Udhampur and Sher-i-Kashmir Police Academy Udhampur in the direction of a crime free society. |
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