School, college girls in Rajasthan to be made aware of police functioning

Jaipur: The Rajasthan state crime records bureau has initiated a special drive in school and colleges to train at least one lakh girls in a year on police functioning and procedures to empower them.

Under the campaign Saarthi, one lakh girls will be given knowledge and information about FIR and the procedure of FIR registration, police headquarters and district level set up, detailed information on police website and all helpline numbers, WhatsApp numbers which they can use when required, SP, SCRB Pankaj Chaudhary told PTI.

He said workshops and training programmes will be organised in educational institutions and special emphasis will be on government institutions in rural areas. We are targeting to cover at least one lakh girls across the state in one year. They will be trained and educated and will be motivated to share the knowledge with family members, friends and with others in their circle so that large number of girls and women and even their family members are acquaint with such knowledge, he said.

Demonstration on the Rajasthan police website, which among others contains all vital information and contact numbers from top to bottom, and mobile apps and digitisation of Rajasthan police will be organised in workshops. Training on police functioning, information on whom to contact and what to do, how to follow a certain procedure will also be the part of the campaign which is getting encouraging results, the SP said.

He said the special focus of the training is on the emerging challenge of cyber crime. Experts will train them on how they can keep away from cyber crimes. Safe use of social media platforms, online banking frauds and other such activities are part of the training programme, Chaudhary said.

The SCRB has roped in Raj Saarthi Foundation to carry out workshops and training programmes in all the districts which would be assisted by state/ district level teams of the SCRB. The campaign was initially introduced on national girl child day on January 24 this year and we have so far covered 25,000 girls in different parts of the state. Its formal inauguration will be on March 8 on the occasion of womens day, Jaideep Sharma, director of the foundation, said.

Chaudhary said there are various helpline numbers, mobile apps through which police has simplified procedures like verification of domestic help or tenant, tracking FIR online and others.