Chandigarh,<\/p>\n
The Punjab Police, led by DGP Suresh Arora, on Monday aggressively took on the social media to counter the growing threat of gangsters and criminals, with<\/p>\n
Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh formally launching their online campaign.<\/p>\n
With this, the Facebook page of Punjab Police (www.facebook.com\/PunjabPoliceIndia), Twitter account of Punjab Police (www.twitter.com\/PunjabPolice),<\/p>\n
Twitter account of DGP and youtube channel of Punjab Police have gone live.<\/p>\n
The social media campaign of the police will go a long way in bridging the gap between the police and the citizens, and also at tackling the abuse of social<\/p>\n
media by gangsters and criminals seeking to spread terror in the state, the Chief Minister said at the launch ceremony.<\/p>\n
The social media accounts will provide an effective forum for information dissemination \/ feedback \/ complaint channelling, said Captain Amarinder, urging<\/p>\n
the police to harness the social media power effectively, for the mutual benefit of the force and the citizens.<\/p>\n
He called upon the police to use the social media in a productive manner to connect with various sections of the society, particularly the youth, in order to<\/p>\n
provide transparent, responsive and effective policing. Social media can be of immense help in effectively handling law and order situations, prevention and<\/p>\n
detection of crimes, and other aspects of policing, he said.<\/p>\n
The DGP said the police would use the three Social Media platforms (Facebook, Twitter & YouTube) to come closer to the people.<\/p>\n
Top police officials, including DGP Punjab Suresh Arora, DGP-IT&T V. K. Bhawra, DGP Intelligence Dinkar Gupta, DGP Law & Order Hardeep Dhillon,<\/p>\n
IG Provisioning Gurpreet Deo, IG Crime inderbir Singh, IG-IT&T S. K. Asthana and IG NRI Cell Ishwar Chander, were present on the occasion. The Chief<\/p>\n
Minister\u2019s Media Advisor Raveen Thukral, along with Principal Secretary to CM Tejveer singh was also present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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