30 Apr, 2007
PATNA: Cops manning the police control room (PCR) near the Gandhi Maidan are a harried lot these days. They get startled each time the telephone sets start buzzing because, of late, callers either hurl choicest of invective or talk nonsense. Though crores of rupees have been spent on police modernisation, no effort has been initiated to install caller IDs in the telephone sets of the PCR. “We are bound to pick up the receiver as we don’t know who is on the other side. The caller could even be the DGP or the IG Saheb,” said a cop manning the PCR. “The callers are generally mischievous people, who derive pleasure by harassing us. It has sort of become our destiny to hear abuses from the callers,” said another policeman. The nonsense talks range from remarks like “Sipahiji ketna samai ho raha hai (What is the time?)” or “Sipahiji kya kar rahe hain, ghumne chaliyega (What are you doing? Let’s have a stroll)” to queries like “Sipahiji, kajrare kajrare achcha lagata hai (Do you like kajrare song?)”. A senior SI-rank officer recalled that once a girl pestered him to marry her. He said that the girl even asked him to come over to the Mahavir Mandir where they would tie the nuptial knot. “When I told her that I am of your father’s age, she started abusing me and even threatened to get me suspended for harassing her. She identified herself as the daughter of a very senior officer,” he added. Another cop said that one such girl always pesters him to hear Radio Mirchi. “Sometimes, we too lose our temper and bang the receiver,” said another cop. Though few telephone sets have caller IDs, they don’t function. Once a young girl called up the PCR and sought advice for legal action against his boyfriend, who, she claimed, had ditched her and developed friendship with another girl. “I won’t leave him. You should advise me how to teach him a lesson,” a policeman deployed at PCR quoted her as having told him. Another cop said that the daughter of a senior officer harassed him for days together. “She would play records of some old melodious Hindi songs and ask me to keep listening them,” he said. “We had written a letter to the zonal IG on December 27, 2006 with a request to ensure installation of caller IDs in all the telephone sets of the PCR,” said a policeman. Zonal IG Rajyavardhan Sharma termed such nuisance as service hazards. “We are in such a service that we have to bear with such things. There is no need to get upset over such calls,” Sharma said, adding that he would order for installation of caller IDs at the PCR shortly.
PATNA: Cops manning the police control room (PCR) near the Gandhi Maidan are a harried lot these days. They get startled each time the telephone sets start buzzing because, of late, callers either hurl choicest of invective or talk nonsense. Though crores of rupees have been spent on police modernisation, no effort has been initiated to install caller IDs in the telephone sets of the PCR. “We are bound to pick up the receiver as we don’t know who is on the other side. The caller could even be the DGP or the IG Saheb,” said a cop manning the PCR. “The callers are generally mischievous people, who derive pleasure by harassing us. It has sort of become our destiny to hear abuses from the callers,” said another policeman. The nonsense talks range from remarks like “Sipahiji ketna samai ho raha hai (What is the time?)” or “Sipahiji kya kar rahe hain, ghumne chaliyega (What are you doing? Let’s have a stroll)” to queries like “Sipahiji, kajrare kajrare achcha lagata hai (Do you like kajrare song?)”. A senior SI-rank officer recalled that once a girl pestered him to marry her. He said that the girl even asked him to come over to the Mahavir Mandir where they would tie the nuptial knot. “When I told her that I am of your father’s age, she started abusing me and even threatened to get me suspended for harassing her. She identified herself as the daughter of a very senior officer,” he added. Another cop said that one such girl always pesters him to hear Radio Mirchi. “Sometimes, we too lose our temper and bang the receiver,” said another cop. Though few telephone sets have caller IDs, they don’t function. Once a young girl called up the PCR and sought advice for legal action against his boyfriend, who, she claimed, had ditched her and developed friendship with another girl. “I won’t leave him. You should advise me how to teach him a lesson,” a policeman deployed at PCR quoted her as having told him. Another cop said that the daughter of a senior officer harassed him for days together. “She would play records of some old melodious Hindi songs and ask me to keep listening them,” he said. “We had written a letter to the zonal IG on December 27, 2006 with a request to ensure installation of caller IDs in all the telephone sets of the PCR,” said a policeman. Zonal IG Rajyavardhan Sharma termed such nuisance as service hazards. “We are in such a service that we have to bear with such things. There is no need to get upset over such calls,” Sharma said, adding that he would order for installation of caller IDs at the PCR shortly.
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