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October 28, 2004
Night Patrol!!!!!!!!
Nanganallur is always renowned for its Night Patrol by the residents... Any news channel which covers night patrol will never fail to mention about the night patrolling done at Nanganallur (Am not sure whether this is being done in any other place or not)...
It's a very unique concept by which the residents in co-operation with the police patrol around the locality at nights. A pool of volunteers consisting of an individual from each house in the locality is identified and seven batches of them are created to man each day. A batch typically comprise of 5 to 10 persons. The patrol starts at 11 pm and goes till 5 am in the morning. The patrol is normally done on a shift basis where the first shift is for 11 pm to 2 am and the next shift is for 2 am to 5 am.
Believe it or not, Lakshmi Nagar in Nanganallur has been doing night patrol for the past 15 years without any break which, I think, is a marvelous achievement by any standards. It's slowly catching up in other areas of Nanganallur also where residents have started to go on night patrol...
I am sure and everybody would agree that people wouldn't mind sacrificing 3 hrs of sleep in a week for the safety of the entire locality (of course including yours).. We cannot always depend fully on the police department to protect us because their resources will not be sufficient to cover the entire locality and we necessarily have to supplement their resources for better protection of our neighborhood.
Some may argue that it's their job to take care of us since their salary is paid out of the taxes we pay. Even though I fully agree with this argument, we may probably look at this from a different perceptive that the 3 hrs of our sleep is a sort of tax paid by the residents to their own locality.
Whether night patrol would fully eliminate the threat of burglary is anybody's guess. But, I think, it would certainly cast a doubt in the minds of the thieves since they stand the risk of getting caught. This, thereby, reduces the chances of thieves going in for any adventures in a locality which has a night patro1!!
Posted by Vasanth at October 28, 2004 10:21 PM
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Good One Vasanth. I
agree with you.
Posted by: KARY at October 29, 2004 11:46 AM