“New Sub Beat System”

Micro Mission: 02 (Community Policing)

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New Sub Beat System

Introduction : i) The old beat structure or organisation was retained in which each beat consists of 5 Beat system is key to policing. Every police to 10 villages. This made the beat service, station limit is divided into beats and a group of collection of intelligence, information and Constables/Head constables are given charge of contact with the people very difficult. these beats. The beat staff will visit the beats and by contacting village headman or ‘important persons’ ii) Each beat was assigned to 4-5 constables in the village area to collect information mainly and Head constables for a period of one about crimes, and to certain extent about forthcoming year. Hence it was very difficult to fix the law and order issues. responsibility.

In police this system is an iii) People selected as beat members were important part of the policing. Karnataka Police spread over in many villages of the beat, Manual Part-2, Chapter 22 (Beats and Patrols in hence the difficulty to establish coordination Rural Section) and chapter 23 (Working of Town between beat members. It was very difficult and City Stations other than Commissionerates) to organise beat meetings in any one of the deal with the beat system. villages in the beat as the beat members Prior to 2009, the beat system was just an were spread in all the villages. instrument for collection of information on crimes iv) Proper supervision was not in place at police and criminals. The beat area was so large, collection station, circle, subdivision and district level. of information and frequent visit to beats was very No review was in place to evaluate the difficult. Beat staff was not fixed to a beat. They working of the system. were frequently changed and fixing of responsibility was not possible. There was no people involvement v) Constabulary was not focussed in the scheme in the system. Beat staff was contacting influential of things. Empowerment of constabulary persons in the beat and collecting information from was not at all addressed who are actually them only. at the helm of affairs at beat level.

In 2009 to improve the system some changes vi) The officers and subordinate staff were not were effected. The changes brought in tried to give trained to communicate with the community. scope for public participation, fixed tenure for the beat staff with respect to the beat. But it failed to This project has identified the above take off as a community policing initiative and not problems and tried to resolve to make the beat able to give expected contribution to improve the system an effective tool by involving the people regular policing. with police, establishing a relationship between them to reduce trust deficit towards police, empowering The study in to the system and experience constabulary to win the respect of the people and has shown the following inherent deficiencies in the to earn the social esteem, improving the regular system. policing.

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Within the perview of existing government iv) To empower constabulary by giving all orders and standing orders this project was initiated policing powers and responsibilities at beat as a pilot project in one of the police stations of level. in November-2015. After studying the encouraging results it was extended to all the v) To provide an equal opportunity to all the police stations of the district in January-2016. police staff in the police station to play a meaningful role. 2. Overview: vi) To give an avenue to police personnel to 2.1. Project Titile: earn the respect of the general public. ‘New sub beat system’– An innovative step by Belagavi District vii) To improve the regular policing. police towards people friendly policing, This can be achieved by making changes empowering constabulary–A in organisation of beats, involvement of citizens, community policing initiative. empowerment of constabulary, maintaining 2.2. Vision: continuous communication between police and public, giving scope to every constable and Head In modern democracies policing needs to constable to a play equal and meaningful role in the involve the community which is intended to get the beat system. service. Without compromising on the core values of policing, community can be roped in a very well 3. Project: articulated manner resulting in the reduction of trust 3.1. Purpose of the project: deficit towards the police. Also it is very much required to empower the constabulary to take ‘Trust deficit’ do exists towards the police. responsibility in delivering the service to the people Normally the mentality is that the role of police is to and by doing so they can win trust, respect and monitor and public are monitored. This kind of earn the social esteem. Finally all this will improve thinking is distancing the public from the police. The the regular policing. project is intended to use the basic tool of policing i.e., ‘beat system’ to reduce the trust deficit and to 2.3 Project objective: allow active participation of the public as co- The beat system is key to policing. The partners/stakeholders in policing activities. objective is to achieve the following. Ninety percent of the force consists of i) To reduce the trust deficit towards the police. constabulary. They represent the police department and visible to the public on all occasions. If they ii) People friendly policing and to involve the win the trust and respect of the people, it will go a public in beat system so that concept of long way in improving the image of the police. In community policing can be implemented this project the thrust is given to empower the which is the necessity of the modern day constabulary. They are given power and policing. responsibility in their respective beat areas. This will iii) To connect the police with the people. increase their respectability and self esteem.

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Overall purpose of this project is to has increased the trust deficit towards the police. reduce the trust deficit towards police through All this has contributed to a situation where police community policing measures and to empower work in isolation, disconnect exists between the the constabulary and to improve regular police and public, no active participation of the policing. public in policing activities. Public even refuse to share information about crime, criminal, daily 3.2. Sponsor: happenings which are known to them.

Belagavi district police is the sponsor. No Hence problem statement can be listed as financial support is required to this project. Belagavi below. district police implemented this project with the available human resources and within the perview i) Identify a suitable tool/mechanism which of existing laws, standing orders and circulars. is already well established in policing, so that no fresh mechanism need to be 3.3. Financial Benefits: established. No investment or financial support is required. Hence financial benefit is not going to ii) Identify the areas where actually suitable picture. The benefits can be measured in terms of: changes are required in the existing mechanism. i) Reduction in trust deficit towards police. iii) How to involve the people/citizens in this ii) Good relations between police and public. mechanism and to establish a relationship between them and the police? iii) Improvement in regular policing. iv) How to empower the constabulary to win iv) Empowerment of constabulary. the trust and respect of people? v) Overall improvement of service to public. v) To create a foundation for community policing and to reduce the trust deficit vi) Better use of human resources available at towards the police. police station level. vi) How to improve regular policing? 4 Situational Assessment and problem statement: 5. Critical assumptions and constraints:

People distance themselves from the police. Critical assumptions: Police mentality is that they are monitors and people are monitored. The constabulary is not empowered Existing beat system is selected as a to solve the problem at their level. Hence people mechanism to achieve the objective of the project will look down towards police constabulary and i.e., ‘People friendly policing and empowerment of under the impression that they should approach the constabulary’ assuming that the beat system is a higher ups to resolve even a small problem. This time tested mechanism.

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Constraints: confidence in sub beat members, conducting sub beat meetings etc., When new sub beat system was introduced as a pilot project in November 2015 in one of the v) To develop a system of multi level police station of the district the following constraints supervision and review at police station were forthcoming/faced. level, circle level, sub division level, district, i) In new sub beat system, beat is reorganised level. and beats are divided into sub beats. On vi) Imparting training to officers and staff and the principle of ‘one sub beat (village) – one need of information and training manual. police’ each sub beat was allotted to a constable or a head constable, it is found vii) Lack of confidence of the sub beat members that number of sub beats are more compare in police to share the information with sub to actual total strength of constables and beat staff. Head constables. ii) Constables and Head constables were viii) Sub beat members were unaware of their hesitant to take complete responsibility of responsibilities. their sub beats thinking that it will burden 6. Implementation Strategy: them. Some of the police station staff who were actually doing only desk work in the 6.1 Implementation Strategy police station were reluctant to accept this system of allotting sub beats to each and To make the existing beat system a people everyone in the police station. In the sub friendly and community policing initiative the beat system, all the work is decentralised following strategy is adopted. sub beat wise. Every one is treated equally. This created dissatisfaction among those i) Sub beats: Unwieldy beats are divided in who were given importance in the previous to smaller and well defined geographical system. They even tried to obstruct the areas and named as sub beats. implementation of the sub beat system. ii) Community policing initiative: Selecting citizens minimum 50 (both men and women) iii) Identifying and impartial selection of suitable across the social groups from each sub beat and active public as sub beat members on the basis of a standard criteria. across the social groups is a challenge. Care should be taken to see that bad iii) Communication: Photos, phone numbers, elements should not be enlisted as sub beat addresses of each sub beat member is members. compiled sub beat wise in a pocket size book and given to sub beat staff. Similarly iv) Constabularaly were lacking in soft skills each sub beat member is given with a pocket like interacting with sub beat members, size book with phone number of sub beat collection of useful information, roping in staff and all the officers up to DSP. Sub beat cooperation of sub beat members, to instill staff and sub beat members together will

‘The Think Tank for Indian Police’ ‘Promoting Good Practices and Standards’ 6 New Sub Beat System : MM 02 form a beat team. Communication is ensured vi) Training: Suitable training is designed to through phone contact, whenever they meet officers and staff about the functioning of signatures will be exchanged in their sub beat system. A training manual is respective pocket sized books. Monthly designed and given to all. A documentary beat team meetings are made compulsory. film is made to market the new initiative and shown to all to understand the system and iv) Empowerment: Sub beat constable or to take active role. Head constable are entrusted with all the police duties, responsibilities of the sub beat. 6.2 Deliverables: In true sense sub beat staff is like Sub Inspector to that sub beat. Sub beat staff is Impact study is done and this can be the ‘beat police chief’. Monthly sub beat categorised in to two. meetings will be conducted by the sub beat chief. Even when senior officer participate a) Quantifiable deliverables. in the beat meetings the sub beat staff will be seated by the side of the officer and equal b) Non quantifiable and qualitative respect will be given to them. deliverables. v) Supervision & review: Multilevel a) Quantifiable deliverables: supervision from station level to SP office is designed. Standard formats for measuring Parameters are taken to measure deliverables are designed for the review of improvement in regular policing and comparison is performance. System of reward for good made between before implementation of this work and punishment for poor work should project (2015) and after implementation of this be in place. project (2016).

Before implementation After implementation Regular police duties 2015 2016

Serving of beats 9740 29098

No. of public contact meetings Nil 8112

Service of summons 91.55% 96.76%

Execution of warrants 85.08% 91.03%

Petition enquiry by beat officers 36% 100%

Passport verification by beat officers 40% 100%

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NCR Enquiry by beat officers 42% 100% Character & antecedents 44% 100% verification by beat officers Rowdy checking. How many times by beat officers (Total - 821 - rowdies in the district) 3641 9262 MOB Checking by beat officers. How many times. (Total No. of 5735 10120 MOB-3007 in the district) Communal Goonda verification by beat officers (Total No. of Communal 583 4584 Goondas-485 in the district) Participation of beat officers in 47% 100% investigation Participation of beat officers in raids 17% 100% against illegal activities Reduction in IPC cases 2208 2045 Increased number raids against 1504 1714 illegal activities Reduction in property offences 182 169

This has shown an excellent improvement iii) Trust deficit towards police is reducing, this in regular policing. is demonstrated by the volunteer information flow by the public and their b) Non quantifiable and qualitative readiness to cooperate with the police at deliverables: sub beat level. iv) Police are getting quick and accurate These deliverables cannot be quantified but information about the happenings in police qualitatively can be seen in daily police work. station limits. i) This system is very effective in bringing v) The constabulary is feeling empowered and police and people close to each other. people are respecting them. The social esteem of the constabulary has gone up. ii) The principles of community policing is vi) The job satisfaction level of the constabulary implemented effectively. has gone up.

‘The Think Tank for Indian Police’ ‘Promoting Good Practices and Standards’ 8 New Sub Beat System : MM 02 vii) In Belagavi district every village and town 6.5. Work Plan is having substantial number of police friends in the form of sub beat members. In Belagavi This project ‘sub beat system’ is taken as district total 62,394 sub beat members are pilot project in Kitturu police station of the district. enrolled. The previous beat system was studied and to make this system a people friendly community policing viii) Every police staff in the police station are system and to empower the constabulary the given equal opportunity to play a meaningful following work plan is adopted. role in police station work.

6.3. Stakeholders: i) Division of beats in to sub beats: i) People: The target of the entire project is The previous beats which are very big and to ‘reduce the trust deficit towards the unwieldy (Chart No. 1) are divided into sub beats. police’. The service to the people is the main Each village of the beat is considered as one sub motto. Hence people are the key beat. Bigger towns are divided in to two or more stakeholders to this project. sub beats. ii) Police Constabulary: Police constabulary is the primary stakeholder. The target is to For example in the previous system. Beat empower them to get the respect, job No. 1 was having 6 villages, this is divided in to satisfaction and social esteem. 6 sub beats, namely 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, 1E, 1F, 6.4 Related Projects: Government of likewise beat no. 2, beat no. 3, beat no. 4, beat no. Karnataka has recognised the impact 5, beat no. 6 are divided in to sub beats. (Chart created by this project i.e., ‘New Sub beat No. 2) System’ in Belagavi district and made an order to extend this to the entire state in the Chart No. 2 shows how 6 beats are divided name of ‘Improvised Beat System’. in to 50 sub beats

BELAGAVI DISTRICT POLICE In ‘‘New Beat’’ System Staff Deployment Chart (Chat - 1)

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BELAGAVI DISTRICT POLICE ‘‘Improved Beat’’ System Staff Deployment Chart (Chat - 2)

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2 PC 6 - B A 1480 - C - 58 Nichanakl A.Y. Ch Ningangoud Patil H annab .R. Kondunalk P asappa D.B. Iti C 889 - S navar M.F. Giriyal PC 2661 - F ttikoppa .M P.S.I. a 50 . Javall 63 - B.R. M 1 A.S.I. PC 26 Kittur PC 3070 - N.R. Galagl A.S.I. HC 1107 - R.V. Kulkarni Beat Villeges Beat Heads ii) Allotment of sub beat to staff: duties with respect to that sub beat are given to them like, On the principle of ‘ONE VILLAGE - ONE POLICE MAN/POLICE WOMAN’ each i) Service of summons. sub beats is given with one constable or one Head constable. ii) Execution of warrants. In Kitturu police station total 50 sub beats iii) Passport verification. are created but the actual strength of constabulary iv) Job verification. (including woman staff) was 40. In this scenario to adjust this difference some of the sub beats v) Character and antecedents verification. (normally two small villages) are clubbed and given vi) Helping in the investigation pertaining to the to one constable or Head constable. With respect crimes registered in that sub beat. to this allotment a detail chart is prepared (Chart vii) Checking of M.O. criminals. No. 2). Like this one staff is given a sub beat or two sub beats but at no circumstance one sub beat viii) Checking of rowdies. is given with more than one constable or Head ix) Checking of communal goondas. constable. x) Generating reports with respects to security iii) Empowerment – Powers and sections under Cr. PC. Responsibilities of sub Beat Staff: xi) Conducting meeting of sub beat staff. Sub beat staff allotted to each sub beat are designated as ‘sub beat police chief’. All the police xii) Curbing illegal activities etc.

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Overall the sub beat staff is completely A monthly beat service is made compulsory. responsible for all the happenings in the sub beat. In this monthly visit sub beat staff should conduct Sub beat staff will be like a Sub-Inspector to that beat team meetings and exchange information. In village. Sub beat staff is the key link between sub these meetings not only issues pertaining to policing beat and police station. All the police powers with but also civic issues will also be discussed. Sub beat respect to that sub beat and responsibilities are given staff is instructed to find solution at their level or to the sub beat chief. they may approach higher ups to resolve the problem. In these meetings sub beat members are iv) Selection of Sub Beat Members – A encouraged to speak about the problems and to People Friendly Community Policing share information. Initiative: Monthly halt of the sub beat staff at a neutral From each sub beat minimum 50 public place like schools, village panchayat office is made (both men and women) from different caste, religion, compulsory. class and age groups are selected as sub beat vi) Documentation: members. For this separate criteria is fixed. Members from peace committee, youth i) Each sub beat will have a sub beat organisations, retired government officers, leaders information book, in which all of different/religious, castes, slum dwellers, those important information like Sub beat who are useful from police point of view are selected map, names, phone numbers and as members. In each sub beat, sub beat staff and addresses of sub beat members, beat members together will form a beat team. important persons, list of MO persons, rowdies, communal goondas, Law and The photos and phone numbers of each sub order issues, important events, list of beat member is collected and compiled in a pocket wine shops, bar and restaurants, any sized book, which will be given to that sub beat information useful for policing about staff. This will make the communication easier. the sub beat is collected and documented. Similarly a pocket size book containing the photo and phone number of sub beat staff and phone ii) Sub beat book: All visit to sub beat, numbers of officers is given to each sub beat information collected, work done, sub member. In both these books blank sheets are beat meetings held will be recorded in provided to exchange the signatures whenever the the own handwriting of sub beat staff. sub beat staff and sub beat member meet. iii) Docket file: Each sub beat staff is provided with a docket file to file the v) Sub beat visits, meetings and halt: copies of reports, verifications and all other records pertaining to the sub Sub beat staff will visit the sub beat whenever beat. there is a necessary like serving of summons, warrants etc. In these visits also they should meet iv) Sub beat members register: available sub beat members. Addresses and phone numbers of the

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sub beat members are compiled station The fifth level of supervision is at SP office. wise and copies will be kept at police In monthly crime review police station wise sub station level, circle office, DSP office beat review will be done. Every day the special & SP office. branch of the SP office will call sub beat member from each police station and interact with them, get vii) Supervision: the feedback and record it, submit it to SP for perusal. At the police station level the first level of supervision is given to Assistant Sub Inspectors CPI, DSP & SP office will make remarks, (Chart:02). For example in Kitturu police station issue memos on the basis of feedback to PSI and 50 sub beats are divided between 4 ASI’s. Their sub beat staff. main job is to ensure the sub beat service, sub beat meetings, sub beat visits, documentation and ASI viii) Review: also may visit sub beats randomly and attend meetings to verify the performance of sub beat staff Formats are designed to review and to interact with sub beat members. performance of each police duty assigned to sub beat police staff. These formats collect the data Police Sub Inspector is at the second level station wise and overall performance is reviewed. supervision. Overall supervision of all the sub beat staff, weekly review is the responsibility of PSI. 50% On the basis of the review suitable of the monthly sub beat meetings PSI has to attend. instructions will be issued to the concerned.

The third level supervision is at circle level. ix) Training: Circle Inspector will visit the police station and review the performance. Every day CPI office will Training is needed to give awareness about. randomly make a phone call to one sub beat member from each police station and enquire about a) Dividing beats in to sub beats. performance of the sub beat staff and their b) Assignment of constabulary to sub beat on relationship with the beat members. 20% of the the principle of ‘One village–One Police’. monthly meetings will be attended by CPI. c) Data collection and documentation. The fourth level of supervision is from DSP d) How to select sub beat members across the office. During police station visits and crime review social groups. DSP will review implementation of sub beat system. e) Duties and responsibilities of sub beat staff. Every day DSP office will make a phone call to one of the sub beat members in each of the police station f) How to conduct beat meetings. limits and interact with sub beat members. 20% of g) How to win the confidence of beat members. the monthly sub beat meeting will be attended by DSP. h) Soft skill tips.

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The first round of training is given to PSI, helped in marketing the project with decision makers Circle Inspectors and DSPs. at department and government level.

The second round training is oraganised at Model Beat System – state wide subdivision level to all the staff. implementation – Institutionlisation: x) Mini Manual: This project has helped in brining police closer to people, empowerment of constabulary, A mini training manual giving all the details reducing trust deficit towards police and about sub beat system is compiled and given to all improvement in regular policing. This made the constables, head constables and officers so that they project to be declared as ‘model beat system’. On can readily refer it. the lines of the new sub beat system, ‘improvised beat system’ is implemented throughout the state xi) Documentary film: from 01.04.2017 through Govt order No: HD 109 SST 2017 dated 21.03.2017 and standing order A short film documenting the implementation no. 1017 dated 24.03.2017. of sub beat system, its impact, how it is helping to bring people and police together as a community Now ‘new sub beat system’ is institutionlised policing initiative, empowerment of constabulary and in the name of ‘Improvised beat system’ and brining improvement in regular policing and reduction trust police closer to people, reducing the trust deficit deficit towards police, is made and shown to every towards the Police, empowering the constabulary stake holder including sub beat members. This and the improving regular policing.

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Beat system is a key to effective policing. y The officers and subordinate staff were not Belagavi district police has introduced an innovative trained to communicate with the community. New Sub Beat System as a community policing initiative. In this the main thrust is to take the y Proper supervision was not in place at police community into confidence, continuous interaction station, circle, subdivision and district levels. with the community, empowering subordinate ranks and reducing the ‘trust deficit’ towards the police. y Importance was not given to empower Constables and Head constables. THE LIMITATIONS OF THE PREVIOUS BEAT SYSTEM NEW SUB BEAT SYSTEM–2016 (A Community Policing Initiative) Prior to 2009, the best system was just an instrument for collection of information about crimes Keeping in mind the above limitations and and criminals. The beat area was so large, collection hindrances and to make the Beat System a of information and frequent visit to beats was very community policing initiative New Sub Beat System difficult. is designed on the basis of following principles.

In 2009, the old beat system was BEAT: Dividing Police Stations into small, improvised and changes were brought in to make well defined geographical areas as beat. the police people friendly and to seek cooperation of citizens. But it is failed to take off as a community COMMUNITY: Selecting citizen across policing initiative and was not able to give the the social groups in the beat as beat members. expected results for the following reasons. COMMUNICATION: Continuous y The old beat structure was retained in which communication between beat staff and beat each beat consists of 8-10 villages. This members. made the beat visilations, collection of information and contact with the people very EMPOWERMENT: Entrusting a beat to difficult. a particular Constable/Head Constable and giving all the police duties, powers and responsibilities to y To each beat 4-5 Constables/Head them. Literally beat staff is the police chief of that constables were assigned for beat duties. beat having power and responsibility. Hence, it was difficult to fix the responsibility. SUPERVISION: Continuous supervision y Civilian members selected in the beat were at different levels. spread over in various villages of the beat hence the difficulty to establish coordination TRAINING: Training the officers and between them. Beat members were also not subordinate staff to interact, communicate and to ready to come to beat meetings in any one address the policing and civic problems of the of the villages in the beat. community.

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THE INNOVATE: CHANGES contact. The sub beat members are INTRODUCED THROUGH encouraged to report any incident in the NEW SUB BEAT SYSTEM sub beat (village). Sub beat members will also help in policing work related to that Within the scope of existing Government village (sub beat). This continuous contact orders and departmental ciculars the changes are will improve the relationship between brought in. police and public, reduces the trust deficit. BEAT STRUCTURE (ORGANIZATION) y Beat Meetings: Every month one beat y Beat structure (organization) is changed. team meeting (Beat staff + members) is Beats are divided into sub beats. In this compulsorily organized. In these meetings system every village and town is considered beat members are encouraged to discuss as a sub beat. about all issues including civic problems of the beat. Beat staff are advised to give BEAT ASSIGNMENT patient hearing and try to solve the problem at their level or by bringing it to the senior y On the principle of ‘one village–one level. This will bridge the gap and win the policeman’. Each Sub beat (a village or an trust of the general public. area in towns) is given to a Constable or a Head Constable of the police station. Beat members are not just informers, they are the sensors and contact point between • All the Police Constables and Head the community and the police. Constables of the police station are assigned to sub beats. EMPOWERMENT OF THE POLICE

COMMUNITY POLICING INITIATIVE y All police duties and responsibilities of each sub beat is given to sub beat Constable y From each sub beat minimum 50 public or Head Constable. The service of (both men and women) from different caste, summons, execution of warrants, all type of religion, class and age group are selected verifications, enquiries, non cognizable as beat members. In each sub beat, staff issues, checking of M.O. criminals, rowdies, and beat members together will form a beat communal goondas, investigation of the team. cases registered in the sub beat, collection of information about crimes and criminals, y The sub beat members and the sub beat staff visit to dalit colonies etc., are given to the are provided with pocket size books respective sub beat staff. All the powers and containing phone numbers and other details. responsibility with respect to sub beat is Whenever they meet they will exchange given to them. The powers and responsibility signatures. On day to day basis they will be will go together; this will empower the sub in touch with each other through phone beat staff.

‘The Think Tank for Indian Police’ ‘Promoting Good Practices and Standards’ 17 National Police Mission Compendium of Projects y The sub beat staff will conduct monthly IMPACT STUDY meetings. In this meeting the will discuss issues related to policing and to civic y The experience of the past one and a problems. The sub beat staff is declared as half year in Belagavi district shows that the police chief to the sub beat. He/she will sub beat system is very effective in be the link or bridge between the village (sub bringing people and police close to each beat) and the police station. This will other. improve the image of the police staff and people start respecting them. y The concept of community policing is implemented effectively. y The sub beat staff will make a compulsory monthly night halt in the village. y Police are getting accurate and quick information about the happenings in y Unlike in previous system where few were police station limits. given more importance, in the present system all the staff of the police station are y Public are getting accurate and quick given an equal opportunity to play a information about the happenings in meaningful role. police station limits. y All the visits and happening in the sub beat y Public are volunteering in giving will be compulsorily recorded in sub beat information and cooperating with the information book. police. y System of reward to good work is in place. y The power and responsibility given to the lower level staff has made them feel y All staff and officers are trained in the new empowered and people are respecting sub beat system. They are provided with them. mini hand book containing details about the working of the sub beat system. y The job satisfaction level and esteem of the Constables and Head Constables has y Four levels of supervision from police gone up. station level to office of Superintendent of Police is in place. The below statistics demonstrates the positive results achieved through sub beat system. y Monthly review is being done and advisories are sent.

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RESULT OF THE NEW SUB BEAT SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION (Statistics for the Entire year)

Before After Police Deuties Implementation Implementation (2015) (2016)

Serving of beats 9740 29098 No. of public contact meetings Nil 8112 Service of summons 91.55% 96.76% Execution of warrants 85.08% 91.03% Petition enquiry by beat officers 36% 100% Passport verification by beat officers 40% 100% NCR Enquiry by beat officers 42% 100% Character & antgecedents verification 44% 100% by beat officers Rowdy checking. How many times by beat officers (Total - 821 - rowdies in the district) 3641 9262 MOB Checking by beats officers. How many times. (Total No. of MOB-3007 in the district) 5735 10120 Communal Goonda verification by beat officers (Total No. of Communal Goondas-485 in the district) 583 4584 Participation of beat officers in investigation 47% 100% Participation of beat officers in raids against illegal activities 17% 100% Reduction in IPC cases. 2208 2045 Increased number raids against illegal activities. 1504 1714 Reduction in property offences. 182 169

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GIVEN EFFECT ALL OVER THE STATE Government of Karnataka modified the 2009 beat FROM 01.04.2017 system on the lines of New Sub Beat System through Government order No. HD 109 SST 2017 Honourable Home Minister of Karnataka dated: 21.03.2017 and further Karnataka police Dr. G. Parameshwara paid a surprise visit to one of department brought a Standing Order to this effect the police stations of the district on 30.11.2016 and (S.O. No. 1017 dated: 24.03.2017). reviewed functioning of sub beat system. He was impressed by the results after interacting with the From 01.04.2017, the Beat System is in Constables and Head Constables. place as a ‘improvised beat system’ in all the districts of Karnataka. Honourable Chief Minister of Karnataka, DG & IGP and senior officers are impressed by Belagavi District Police this Community Policing Initiative. New Sub Beat Office of the Superintendent of Police, System implemented by Belagavi district police is Belagavi considered as a model beat system and a effective Ph: 0831 2405204 Community Policing Initiative in the State. Now e-mail: spbgm.gov.in@ksp

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