{"id":14417,"date":"2025-01-23T16:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T11:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elvektechnologies.com\/idcindia\/?page_id=14417"},"modified":"2025-01-30T11:23:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T05:53:02","slug":"saanjh-kendra","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/elvektechnologies.com\/idcindia\/saanjh-kendra\/","title":{"rendered":"Saanjh Kendra"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Institute for Development and Communication (IDC) is a premier autonomous research,
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Institutionalisation of Community-Policing Partnership: Saanjh Kendra in Punjab<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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THE Institute for Development and Communication (IDC), Chandigarh conceptualised the idea of an institutionalised community policing programme in Punjab and proposed the same to the Government of Punjab in the late 1990s. This was a unique experiment implemented in post-terrorism phase in Punjab. The underlying idea was to motivate people to own a police station, the way they own a school, dispensary or community centre.<\/p>

For this, police reforms were initiated from a police station rather than from above. There is an in-build inhibition in people to visit police stations. The mere idea of visiting a police station sounds fearful and makes them apprehensive. After a decade of research it was found that there is a spatial disconnect with the police station, howsoever modernised it may be. Hence this experiment.<\/p>

The idea was conceived under the leadership of Dr. Pramod Kumar, Director, IDC, Chandigarh. In February, 2001, the Director IDC was engaged as a resource person and IDC as a resource agency through a Memorandum of Understanding on community policing by the Punjab Police under a framework of cooperation to develop an academic understanding of community policing with a regional approach. The outcome of this engagement resulted in the form of Community Policing Resource Centres, and the Government of Punjab approved the setting up of District level Community Policing Resource Centres (CPRCs) vide its Memo No. 16\/163\/2002-4H(5)\/415 dated 28.01.2003, and a detailed standing order was prepared and circulated to all the districts to establish Community Policing Resource Centres.<\/p>

In April 2003, vide DO No. 216\/PA\/OSD L&O dated 22.04.2003 by the OSD (Law & Order) \u2013 Cum \u2013 Nodal Officer Community Policing Punjab, requested IDC to formally accord its consent for acting as an expert facility for developing training resource materials and packages for the smooth running of the Community Policing Centres (CPRCs), sensitisation and awareness generation among the opinion-making sections and imparting specialised training. The Institute for Development and Communication (IDC) played a pivotal role in conceptualizing and shaping the Saanjh community policing initiative in Punjab.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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1. Research and Conceptualization:<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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