Barmer Police is blogger too!

The Barmer till now has often been in news for reasons that cannot be termed as very positive if not wrong reason. But the recent years have seen a lot of changes. Now Barmer is not only in news because of drought but also due to the fact that it has brought the state of Rajasthan in the oil map of the world, upcoming thermal power plant and the increasing economic opportunity in the area. There has been one development near a year back which I feel has a news value. This development came as a pleasant surprise for me and in many ways is not a sort of thing you expect to originate from a place like Barmer.

The district Police of Barmer hosted their blog on the net. By the name of Barmer Police this blog was started nearly a year back and is being updated and used regularly by the police department. The SP who initiated it last year claimed that he ‘intends to improve relation of the police with the community’ and ‘blog would be helpful in that’. How much has the relation improved may be debatable but at least this blog provides an online update related to new cases, arrests, investigation etc
The blog has separate sections dedicated for helpline/crime prevention along with the important phone numbers of the department. No doubt that the district has a very low literacy rate and a very few proportaion of people would be using it now but it doesn’t takes away the credit from the Police Department to start the initiative and be among one of the proactive districts among the country to have a blog of their own.