In order to ensure round the clock monitoring and effective responsive policing, the Kapurthala Police today launched the first phase of the Safe City Project with upgraded PCR motorcycles and Rapid Rural Response Police (RRRP) vehicles.Flagging off the 24 PCR vehicles and three RRR police vehicles, Senior Superintendent of Police Harkamalpreet Singh Khakh said that these upgraded PCR motorcycles and vehicles would move every corner of Kapurthala and Phagwara cities by performing duty round the clock. He said that these teams would respond to any call of crime promptly or law and order situation within 20 minutes of it being reported.In a press conference after the launch of the first phase of the Safe City Kapurthala project, SSP said that the move will ensure a safe city for the general public and the main objective of the project is to increase surveillance and visibility among people.He said that these would also help improve traffic management, monitor suspicious people, supervise vital installations, public places for keeping eye on regular activities and disaster management support.The SSP said that the entire city would be covered through the deployment of dedicated police patrol motorcycles and an effective emergency rural response system equipped with technology and immediate availability of professionally equipped police personnel.
He also said that three squads have also been formed to manage the traffic problem in Phagwara city. Earlier traffic police personnel were deployed at specific points for duty, but now traffic sleuths would do mobile duty and control the traffic snarls where they would be informed about it.The SSP said that in the first phase, 12 PCR motorcycles would work for 24 hours duty in the Phagwara subdivision and three mobile squads are also deployed for traffic management in the city. These squads will be engaged in controlling the traffic and will also remove the encroachments along the roads so that the traffic moves smoothly, he added.Khakh said that officers of Kapurthala police are holding meetings with council officials as well as shopkeepers' unions and other associations in the city to make encroachments-free passage for free flow of traffic in the city and markets. He said that Yellow line marking would also be done in congested areas and no encroachment will be allowed beyond this line in the city.He said that in this phase 12 PCR motorcycles have also started functioning in Kapurthala city and soon in the next phase, we would be covering Sultanpur Lodhi and Bholath subdivisions under this project.SSP said that three Rural Rapid Response Vehicles have started functioning in Phagwara sub-division, in which the first vehicle would move on the Highway Patrolling and villages falling on Chehru to Chachoki highway under Satnampura police station, the second vehicle from Konika Resort flyover to Mehli under Sadar police station and the third vehicle would cover the villages from Hoshiarpur Chowk to Rehana Jatna area.