Kids have brush with cops,criminals
Chennai | Thursday, Nov 19 2009 IST
 

It was an unique experience for the students belonging to more than 150 schools in Chennai City when they were taken on 'tour' of the police stations to get a feel of the law enforcement agency's working.

It was more an educational tour of a different kind and an eye opener for children who, for the first time, came face-to-face with "hardened criminals" managed by the law enforcers.

The students, from 166 Corporation and private Matriculation Schools, were taken to police stations where they had a chance to peek at handcuffs for the first time in their lives.

It was an initiative from Chennai City Police Commissioner T Rajendran not only to remove fear about police from the minds of the students, but also to educate them on the need to report complaints without any fear and be more friendly with jackboots, Everwin Matriculation Higher Secondary School Correspondent B Purushothaman told UNI.

About 20 boys and girls from the sixth, seventh and eighth standards of Everwin School at suburban Kolathur, had a day out at Villivakkam Police Station, where they saw for themselves how the police worked in the stations. The school managements, responding to the police initiative, sent their students to the local stations where they interacted with the police and senior officials in the stations.

The enthusiastic students were told how police respond to a diverse nature of complaints and the respective IPC sections with which they deal with them.

-- (UNI) -- 19MS50.xml

 

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