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Cops not listening? File your complaints on the Net

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CLAIR MACDOUGALL

Posted: Jan 04, 2008 at 0000 hrs IST

The small and dingy conference room at the Press Club of India was teeming with journalists and photojournalists waiting to photograph and question Kiran Bedi. This was one of the few public appearances Bedi has made since she resigned from her position as Director General of the Bureau of Police Research and Development. Bedi, in conjunction with the India Vision Foundation, today launched an electronic cmplaint forwarding system, www.saferindia.com, to file complaints at police stations.

This complaint forwarding system has been developed by Bedi and her team. “The effort aims to create a bridge between the police and the complainant,” Bedi said. India Vision Foundation is a trust that works in areas of police and prison reforms and women's empowerment.

Through this website, citizens who feel that their complaint has not been recorded or addressed at the police station can recount their complaint by filling an online form posted on the website. After the complaint has gone through a careful screening process by advocates, retired police officers and other experts in the field, it is forwarded to the concerned state police headquaters. A copy of the complaint is then emailed to the complainant so that they can approach the police station and follow it up.

However, Bedi stresses that the technology is a means by which citizens and complainants can 'strengthen the police services' and that the project and e-based complaint system should not be viewed as an attempt to replace the state police force.

“We want people to know that there is a website called saferindia.com by which an ordinary man can log in a complaint by spending only Rs 25,” Bedi said.

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