GREATER NOIDAAugust 31, 2008

SECURITY SCENARIO

ByManoj K. N.Informatics Apartments, Pi-1

Welcome to the feast !

A quote from NOIDA Police web site will explain why this meeting is a ‘feast’

Words of wisdom …

“Police and Public are the two participants in the system. They should meet each other half way – only then, the encounter becomes a feast…….

…..The mission of Noida Police Force is to ensure that the resultant outcome of the interaction between Police and Public is positive and their synergy leads to overall social benefit. ”

From www.noidapolice.com

Tons of thanks …

For living up to the promise and coming the ‘half way’

To Sh. P V Rama shastri IPS, DIG Meerut Range, UP Police

To the officers fromUP PoliceGreater NOIDA AuthorityG B Nagar Dist

Administration andNOIDA Power Company

Limited

Many thanks …

And some special thanks is due…

For facilitating this ‘half way meeting’To Sh. Shantonu Sen, Former Jt.

Director, CBI and First Resident of Greater NOIDA, for his able guidance and support

To Sh. Gajanan Mali for his unwavering enthusiasm

And to YMCA for being a gracious host as always

GREATER NOIDA At a glance

Established in 1991 Notified area of 36,000 Ha 5,000 Ha already urbanized Population

Present – around 1.5 Lac (expected figure by 2006 was 3 Lac )

By 2011 – 7 LacBy 2021 – 12 Lac ( Current

population of G B Nagar Dist)

GREATER NOIDAUSP…as claimed…

Green and Clean environment

Infrastructure – lot of planning has been done

Is the golden chance of developing an ultramodern city being wasted ?

Fast growing city Plans alone will not do… has to be followed up with sincere action

Needs an approach which is more pro active and citizen friendly

GREATER NOIDANo shortage of plans…

Lacks focus in the all important areas of PPP

POWERPUBLIC TRANSPORTPOLICINGAnd all 3 contribute to overall

security in the City

GREATER NOIDABut enough commitment ???

GREATER NOIDALosing Focus ???

Privatized power supplyConcept is goodPrivatization without competition – A disaster for the consumers

Authority funded buses …the yellow revolutionFailing miserably Totally lacking professionalism and accountability

GREATER NOIDALosing Focus ???

GREATER NOIDAPresent Scenario : Security

Ineffective Private Security Guards

Patrolling is only for the name sake

Booths installed at roundabouts went missing long time back

Less populated sectors are almost neglected by PoliceExample :Knowledge ParksOmega, Phi, Builders AreaPi, Rho, Sigma , Swarna Nagri…

GREATER NOIDAPresent Scenario : Security

Nights are scary on the roads in the absence of enough PPP

Factors making life vulnerable Lack of a decent Public

TransportAbsence of enough Police

PatrolNon functional street lights

GREATER NOIDAPresent Scenario : Security

Auto Lifting from markets, sectors and even from roads

Snatching of bags, mobiles etcThefts happening in houses,

mainly locked onesAs population is very less, only

possible deterrent is deploying more police on the streets and market areas

GREATER NOIDAPresent Scenario : Crime

No check on traffic violationsDriving on the service roads is

mostly in the wrong directionNo control on Speed , especially

on the service roads

GREATER NOIDAPresent Scenario : Traffic

GREATER NOIDA Police Stations

Presently 4 Stations – Greater NOIDA, Kasna, Surajpur and Dhankore

None of the urban residential sectors come under the station named after the city

They come under Kasna Police station which is not in Kasna but in Beta II !

NOIDA POLICEWeb site

Excellent and professionally done layout

Very little Information about Greater NOIDA sectors

Focus seems to be only on NOIDAShouldn’t it be renamed as

Gautam Budh Nagar Police site ?

Some humble suggestions

Rename Kasna Police Station as Greater NOIDA City Police station and make it a model station

Complete computerization – CIPA Deploying Electronic surveillance like

CCTV cameras Online complaint section on the web site

needs to be more comprehensive Complaint ID Future follow up Status of past complaints should be visible

to General Public

Patrolling to be improved, specially during nights

Set up a 24 hr call centre with centralized information like Phone numbers of Station Officers and Patrol vans

Accessing call centre via toll free lines from anywhere should be possible

Call centre should register public complaints

More suggestions…

And a few more suggestions

Patrolling on Express highway should be more efficient. .especially in nights

Vehicles crossing the central verge along Express way to be punished

Giving fixed tenure to Station Officers

More Police-Citizen interactions

And finally the time to say …

THANK YOU

GREATER NOIDAAugust 31, 2008

SECURITY SCENARIO

ByManoj K. N.Informatics Apartments, Pi-1