Srinagar, Apr 27: Police Community Partnership Group (PCPG) meetings was held at several police stations in Kashmir Valley Friday.
According to a police spokesman, with an aim to strengthen relations with public and establish first-hand contact with masses, Police Station Nigeen convened a public interaction in which a number of “respectable citizens” of Saidakadal area participated.
The meeting was chaired by SHO Police Station Nigeen Riyaz Ahmad Khan. The participants highlighted various issues of public importance like drug menace, social crimes and some issues related to civil administration like repair of interior roads, repair of street-lights, horror of increasing dogs, beautification and plantation of pavements from Ashai Bagh bridge towards Saida Kadal, the spokesman said.
He said SHO Nigeen stressed upon the importance to keep the pavements clean and shunning the habit of unnecessarily displaying the goods outside the shops. The participants promised to contribute in keeping the area hassle-free.
Referring to the issues highlighted by the participants, SHO Nigeen assured them that issues pertaining to police will be solved in shortest possible time and the rest will be taken up with the civil administration for their redressal on priority. He also sought the cooperation of participants in fighting drug abuse and social crimes in the area.
A similar meeting was also held at Police Post Rangreth, which was chaired by SDPO Sadder Fahad Tak along with SHO Sadder Raies Hassan and in-charge PP Rangreth Showkat Ahmad Khan.
In this meeting also the participants highlighted various issues of public importance like macadamization of roads, regularization of public transport with special emphasis on availability of transport during the peak hours, cleaning of roads and markets by municipality, installation of street-lights, police verifications, etc, spokesman said, adding that the police officials assured them that the issues highlighted by them would be addressed by the police and the civil administration.
Police Station Harwan also conducted a PCPG meeting with the prominent citizens of some 32 villages falling under the jurisdiction of this Police Station.
The meeting was chaired by SP City East Srinagar Dawood Ayub who was accompanied by SDPO Nehru Park Sadhanshu Verma and SHO Police Station Harwan.
During the interaction participants put forth various demands of public importance and were assured that those pertaining to police shall be redressed on merit and other grievances pertaining to other departments shall be taken up with the concerned for their early redressal.
A PCPG meeting was also held at Police Station Litter and here again police assured help in getting peoples issues redressed.
