KOCHI: With a click on the mousepad by DGP Jacob Punnoose, the Kochi city police on Saturday launched itself on the cyber highway of social networking sites. The city police opened an account on three social networking sites - Facebook, Orkut and Twitter - under the username ‘kochipeacemaker’ on Saturday. A blog has also been launched with the address ‘http://janamythirikochicitypolice.
blogspot.com/ Launching the initiative at the Kadavanthra police station, Jacob Punnoose said the Kochi police had been the changing face of Indian police. “The face of the police needs to be changed and the Kochi police are bringing in that change,” he said, adding that this initiative would be a part of the global policing network in future.
The DGP said the nature of the crimes change with the technological developments.
“The nature of crimes is based on lifestyle and technological developments.
There are about 2.5 crore SIM cards in the state, which is almost equivalent to the number of adult population in the state. A SIM card is like a passport to the cyber world.” “There is a minority of the general population which exploits the opportunities in the cyber world.
The police patrolling becomes essential when happenings in the cyber world affect lives in the real world.
That is why the police decided to launch a patrolling on social networking sites.
With the new initiative, the police will have a presence in the virtual cyber highway,” he said. Ernakulam Range IG B Sandhya, City Police Commissioner Manoj Abraham and DCP P H Asharff spoke. The accounts on the social networking sites will be manned by the personnel with the police cyber cell. The city police decided to launch the new initiative as a part of an effort to getting closer to the people. The public can send messages to the police through these portals.