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City police blog disappoints visitors

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July 24, 2013
Mangalore, Jul 24: Though it was created with the intention of disseminating news about crime in Mangalore city limits regularly to interested patrons, the blog of Mangalore City Police has been irregular in its updates from some time.
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To provide information on different crimes that have occurred in the district such as murder, robbery, burglary, extortion or rape, the then-Superintendent of Police B Dayananda had launched the blog of Dakshina Kannada district police on December 8, 2005.

Then, the blog also played a role in the district becoming a pioneer in the use of modern technology in disseminating information to people.

When the Mangalore Commissionerate came into existence with the installation of Seemanth Kumar as Mangalore City Police Commissioner in 2011, a separate blog was created specifically for updating crime news occurring in city limits.

However, the Mangalore City Police blog has become inactive and lagged behind in its updates compared to its district police counterpart. Although regular so far, the city blog saw only 16 posts in the month of June compared to 31 posts in the blog of district police.

More astonishing, the city blog contains a lone post, while the district blog has regular posts numbering 24 in July, i.e. one for each day.

The city blog holds a single post for the month of July, featuring the portrait of a suspect in the recent Moodbidri Jain temple theft case, which is disappointing to say the least.

After a post was updated on June 29, the next one was dated July 7, and no posts were updated since. No information has been provided on the theft case that took place at the Jain temple in Moodbidri in which precious idols and diamonds worth crores of rupees were stolen and the subsequent arrests.

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The status of the blog in question has exposed the working of the city police department. Even the past updates in the blog have been posted after a couple of days.

Even if the department claims shortage of personnel to keep the blog active, there are some who question if it was right to stop updating information on the blog.

Expectations proved wrong

People of Mangalore were of the opinion that the working of city police would improve once the Commissionerate was formed. However, these expectations were not to be met. Even if the number of police officers in the city police department has increased, the graph of crime rate has not gone down. Crime still continues unabated in the city, with the general feeling among the public that criminals do not fear the police system in the district.

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February 9,2020

Uppinangady, Feb 9: Two members of a family were killed after the car collided with a tanker on the NH 75 at Bedrody near Uppinangady last night.

Police said on Sunday that the deceased have been identified as Jainy Saji (30) and her elder brother Jeeson (40).

Jainy and Jeeson were going to Uppinangady when a tanker, coming from the opposite direction, rammed into their car.
 

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April 6,2020
Mangaluru, Apr 6: Agricultural produce vendors have decided to hold an indefinite strike from Monday here in city's Central Market.
 
This move comes in response to district administration’s order asking them to shift to the APMC yard at Baikampady and not heeding to their appeal to allow them to operate from the Market and other areas in the city.
 
The district administration has decided to shift the vendors in order to prevent crowding in the market and maintain social distancing norms.

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March 19,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 19: To better enforce social distancing and prevent further spread of Covid-19, the Karnataka health and family welfare department on Wednesday said it will "stamp the back of the palm" of international passengers advised to be on home quarantine, along with the date they are allowed to get out of home. The stamping process began at 12am Thursday.

Pankaj Kumar Pandey, commissioner, health and family welfare, said: "It is noted that a few passengers under home quarantine are not following the instructions. Therefore, it has been decided to stamp the back of the palm of their left hand with a specially designed stamp which will indicate the last day of quarantine."

He said the special stamp will use an indelible ink and "airports in Karnataka have been instructed to follow this without fail". On average, about 3,000 people are arriving in Bengaluru on international flights every day.

The department said social distancing is the only known method of combating the spread of Covid-19 and added, "International passengers are segregated as symptomatic and asymptomatic."

High-risk flyers kept at mass quarantine unit

The symptomatic passengers (Group-A) are taken to designated hospitals; asymptomatic ones, depending on the port of origin, are taken to the quarantine centre or permitted to go on home quarantine.

At the mass quarantine centre, the asymptomatic passengers are divided into moderate-risk (Group-B) and high-risk (Group-C) categories.

“The high-risk passengers are kept at a mass quarantine centre for medical observation. The moderate-risk passengers are being sent for home quarantine where they need to spend 14 days,” the statement added.

Pandey said: “International passengers changing flights within the country cannot be stopped. Ideally, they should be stamped at the first port of entry when they arrive from a foreign country which is not happening.” He said this issue will be brought to the notice of the Directorate-General of Civil Aviation.

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