A State police group below Harmeet Singh, now Guwahati’s Commissioner of Police, had in 2018 begun including enjoyable to the power’s marketing campaign in opposition to crime in 2018.
A State police group below Harmeet Singh, now Guwahati’s Commissioner of Police, had in 2018 begun including enjoyable to the power’s marketing campaign in opposition to crime in 2018.
The intense job of policing has not stopped the Assam police from discovering humour in routine instances. A housebreaking in Guwahati over the past 24 hours would hardly have made information however for the State police’s tackle the incident on Twitter.
“The curious case of a cereal burglar! Regardless of its many well being advantages, seems, cooking khichdi throughout a housebreaking try will be injurious to your well-being,” it tweeted on Tuesday.
“The burglar has been arrested and @GuwahatiPol is serving him some scorching meals,” it added.
Locals within the metropolis’s Hengerabari space had been alerted by the sounds from the kitchen of a home whose occupants had been away. They caught the burglar cooking and handed him over to the police.
On Monday, the Guwahati visitors police tweaked the “
hum do, hamaare do ” slogan coined in 1952 for a household planning marketing campaign for {couples} to not have greater than two kids.
“Aami duta, amaar duta helmet (the 2 of us, our two helmets),” the Tweet in Assamese learn above the crimson inverted pyramid of the household planning marketing campaign.
“Guarantee security for your self and folks near you… Don’t be lax when your life issues,” the Tweet stated in Assamese.
On December 30, the Assam police let pun take over whereas cautioning New 12 months revellers. “This New 12 months’s Eve, strive to not be our friends. Free entry for rash drivers, drunk drivers, different eligible violators,” it stated in a tweet.
“Particular efficiency by: DJ Lockup. On the menu: CopCake and different dessert gadgets in our custard-y,” the tweet added.
A State police group below Harmeet Singh, now Guwahati’s Commissioner of Police, had in 2018 begun including enjoyable to the power’s marketing campaign in opposition to crime in 2018. He was then the Further Director-Basic of Police (Modernisation-Logistics).
One of many first fun-tweets was: “Sharing rumours/hate messages on-line can allow you for a date with us in nearest police station this weekend.”
“Mobs might not comply with the legislation, however the legislation will comply with them. If you happen to hit, the legislation received’t miss” adopted.
These and scores of different such messages have been shared by the police’s Fb and Instagram accounts in addition to Twitter. They had been below the ‘Assume’ marketing campaign in three hashtag segments – #ThinkBeforeYouPost, #ThinkBeforeYouHit and #ThinkBeforeYouStalk.
On the bottom, the Assam police have been robust in opposition to criminals of all hues. Since Could 2021, when Himanta Biswa Sarma took cost because the Chief Minister, the power has killed 33 alleged drug sellers, cattle smugglers, kidnappers and homicide accused in “encounters” and injured at the very least 60 others.
“Shoot criminals within the legs in the event that they attempt to escape from custody,” the Chief Minister, stating that this coverage was inside the ambit of the legislation.
