POLICE STATION VISITORS WEEK 3-9 November 2013 (BANGLADESH, INDIA, NEPAL AND PAKISTAN) REPORT OF RESULTS IN SOUTH ASIA Institute for Development and Communication (IDC) Sector 38A, Chandigarh - 160014 (India) Tel. +91 - 172 - 2625941 Fax. +91 - 172 - 2625942 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.idcindia.org IDC is a founding member of Altus Global Alliance. Author : Rainuka Dagar Published by : Institute for Development and Communication (IDC) This publication may be freely reproduced, abstracted, or translated, in part or whole, with acknowledgement but may not be sold or used in conjunction with commercial activities. Financial support for Police Station Visitors Week 2013 was provided by the UK Department for International Development. CONTENTS Foreword 1 Acknowledgement 3 Summary 6 An Introduction to PSVW 8 PSVW 2006-2013 : What were the award winning practices from around the world 11 Participating countries and police stations 15 Visitors profile and feedback 28 Visitors categories and their viewpoints 34 How were the scores collected and calculated 37 Categories of assessment and top performers 38 Global overview of citizen assessments of participating police stations 41 Country-wise top police stations 42 Good practices highlighted 46 About Altus Global Alliance 52 Mission of Altus Altus is a global alliance working across continents and from a multicultural perspective to improve public safety and justice. Altus places special emphasis on police accountability and the quality of police oversight, serving as a source of knowledge and innovation for governments, police leaders, human rights activists, legislators, journalists and citizens around the world, concerned about the effective and fair control of policing. FOREWORD The major challenge for Altus is to build a strategic focus of PSVW. This has to be evolved in accordance to its users i.e. at the level of civil society, policy makers, police professionals. A multilayered focus has to be nurtured including integration with broader governance and police reforms and access to police services as a right and to provide visibility and recognition to police station as a nerve centre of policing. Another challenge is to create enabling conditions for citizens to raise relevant questions like making police stations diversity and gender-sensitive, spatially less hostile and accountable and transparent for delivery of police service. Many of these challenges have been transformed into opportunities by PSVW. It has documented many instances of best practices as an outcome of this programme. It has generated comparative knowledge on policing methods, local needs and expectations. It has directly promoted police-public interaction and created a forum for police-community partnership to further justice-delivery and promote human rights standards. These post-colonial societies have a legacy of multi-cultural population with multiple identities of ethnicity, religion and caste, in a development context it is still grappling with poverty, disparities, hunger and scarce resources. In such a situation, delivery of justice becomes central to human existence. And police stations that are the first contact of citizens to get justice, become central to any reform initiative. A PSVW report on South Asia has documented good practices. A number of initiatives on issues of community-police interface, improvement in police station services and various oversight bodies to ensure citizen engagement were documented for further dissemination. The regional report on South Asia concludes that, ‘the most visible change in police stations in India and even Nepal and to some extent in Pakistan has been the upgrading of basic facilities and citizens engagement in systemic manner, particularly through the Community Policing Resource Centres (CPRCs) in the Indian Punjab.’ However, after all these editions of PSVW, a major challenge remains to make police station more diversity and gender-sensitive in South Asia. Efforts are needed to create enabling conditions for citizen engagement in making these reforms sustainable. Pramod Kumar Altus Chairperson 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Altus Global Alliance would like to acknowledge the support of police agencies and community groups that participated in the four countries of Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan. An event of this magnitude required assistance from all sectors, whether passing word on to a team or taking the extra hours to make a visit. Altus would like to give special thanks to the following organisations, without whose efforts the PSVW 2013 would not have taken this shape. INDIA: Assam: •Lawyers Bar Association Rice Mills •B.J.P. Party •Chairman members, Guwahati; Amritsar Rural: •ITI Committee Baluana; Ferozepur: •B.J.P. Baba Bakala •Social Welfare Department Party •Jawahar Navodaya School Mahian Lopoke •International Engineering College, Wala Kalan •NGO Committee Zeera •Truck Ramtirath •Senior Secondary Girls School, Union Zeera •Govt. Middle School Bhindi Saida •Senior Secondary School Resulpur •Nagar Council Jagbani •Social Mathiala; Barnala: •Holy Heart School Worker Municipal Council •BJP Circle head Mahal Kalan; Bathinda: •Welfare members •Members Freedom Society •Market Committee Kotfatta; Fighters •Youth Welfare Society •President Chandigarh: •Community Liasoning Groups Rice Mill •Senior Citizen Association; ( Sector 17, 23, 26, 31) •Family Planning Hoshiarpur: •Khalsa Senior Secondary Association of India •Jan Sikshan Schoo •G.G.N. Public School Sansthan •Market Associations. (Sector-36, Mukerian •Truck Union Mukerian •Lions 31 and 17) •National Service Club Garhshankar •Akali Dal Scheme •Government Model Senior Mahilpur •Nehru Yuva Kendra Secondary School (19, 22, 35) •Punjab and Dasuha •Traders Association Dasuha •Govt. Haryana Bar Council •Resident Welfare Senior Secondary School •Bhai Ganniah Associations. (Sector 36 and 31) •Students Charitable Trust Tanda •Old Age Home Human Rights Network •Surya Tanda •Urban Congress Mahilla Mandal Foundation •The Reads •Youth Technical Party Gardhiwala •Shiromani Akali Dal Training Institute •Law department Panjab Hoshiarpur •The Rahat Club University; Delhi: •Resident Welfare Hoshiarpur •Mahilla Pradhan Committee •Market welfare Hoshiarpur •Balmiki Sabha Committee •Senior Citizen Committee •IIT, Hoshiarpur •Sports Club Hoshiarpur •Govt. New Delhi •Women Wings, Vasant High School Bajrawar •CPSC, PSOC Vihar •Life Care Regeneration •Bharat Members Punjab •Sarpanch Punjab Samaj Sevak; Faridkot: •Pesticide Union Panchayats •Muncipal Councillers •Block Kotkapura •Hansraj Memorial College Samiti Members •Zila Parishad Members; Bajakhana •National Club Faridkot; Jallandhar Commissionareate: •Gurudwara Fatehgarh Sahib: •Truck Union •Tempo Singh Sabha Cantt •Lions Club •New Star and Rickshaw Union •Rehri Market Youth and Sports Club •Association Focal Association •D.J. System and Musical Point •Association Dana Mandi •Iron Group Association; Fazilka: •Association Market Association •AutoDealer 3 Association •Punjab Scooter Seller Saida •Guru Gobind Sigh Social Welfare Association •Jalandhar Focal Point Organisation •Guru Nanak College Association •Rotary Club •Cloth Market Budhlada •Guru Teg Bhadur College Association •Senior Secondary School Boha •Jan Seva Club •Lions Club, Bandhni Lohiana •Surjeet Memorial Club •Public Kalan •M.K.D. Memorial School Senior Secondary School Shahkot •Manav Budhlada •Malwa College Sardulgarh Kalyan Sanstha Shahkot •Dhiman Factory Women Wing, Jhunir •Malwa Youth Nakodar; Jallandhar Rural: •Chintpurni Club •Mansa Club •Member Lok Welfare Club, Mehatpur •Govt. Senior Adalat •Mistri Union •N.M. College •N.S.S. Secondary School, Mehatpur •B.S.P. Unit •North West College Dhudhike, President •Truck Union Nakodar •Guru Ajeetwal •Shiromani Gurudwara Nanak National College Nakodar •D.A.V. Prabandhak Committee Saidwala •Shiv College Phillaur •Market Committee Shakti Seva Samiti, Bandhni Kalan •Sidhu Phillaur •Medical Store Association, Sports Club Laliawali •Suvidha Adampur •Krishna Commercial Institute, Centre •Woose Association Budhlada; Bhogpur •Sikh Welfare Society Moga: •A.D. College, Dharamkot •Bibi Bhani Bhogpur •Cloth Market Association, Institute Sports Club Dharmkot •Commission Adampur •Press Club Adampur •Lions Club Agent Group Samalsar •D.M. Adampur •President Congress Party •Ajeet College •Dashmesh Youth Sports and Newspaper Kartarpur •Pehredar Newspaer Welfare Club •Dev Samaj School Kartarpur •Vishwakarma Market; (Boys) •District Co-ordinator Member, Kapurthala: •Milk Society •Taxi Union Adarsh School •District Co-ordinator, Bolath Kapurthala •Auto Union Patti •Guru Amardas Youth Club Kapurthala •Market Association •Truck Mehna •Guru Ramdass Ji Girls Welfare Union Kapurthala •Guru Nanak College Society, Dharamkot •Gurudwara Shri Paka Sukhchaina Sahib •Govt. High School, Sahib •Gurukul School Mehna •Jagat Sevak Sultanpur Lodhi •Sant Prem Sigh College School Mehna •Khalsa Girls College, Begowal •Jhandmal School •Anand Public Mehna •Mahilla Mandal Dharamkot School, Saffron Senior Public School Municipal Council, Baghapura •Navyug Phagwara •Shaheed Udham Singh Club Public School Dharamkot •Nihal Singh Ranipur •Commission Agents of Vegetable Wala •North West College Association Market •Lions Club Sultapur Dhudhike •Panchayat Members •Plumber Lodhi •Rural Institute of Technology, Union Moga •Polytechnic College, Jabbowal Sultanpur •Women Helpline, Rode •Saanjh Kendra Committee Kapurthala; Khanna: •Red Cross Society, Members •Saanjh Kendra Jung Sports and Khanna