Friends of Police Movement: a turnkey solution to fighting terror

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Every citizen is a stakeholder in today's terror-scenario, just as the police have no time to relax or take lightly the threats that are just too many. We have been crusading with the "Friends of Police" concept (a platform for such concerned and involved citizen stake-holders). The FoP has however not caught the imagination of police leaderships countrywide as it should though ironically it is the only available international blueprint for community policing. To quote another experienced police officer from Delhi Shri Maxwell Pereira,"The reluctance perhaps, because it is another's brainchild. They would do well though to realise that FoP is none other than formal nomenclature to an age old concept of basic community involved policing that empowers the individual to be part of the overall policing in which he has a stake where he can be the eyes and ears of the system and share the 'Intelligence' privy....