New Panchkula CP asks his men to prepare database of all migrants

Panchkula: "Prevention is better than cure, " is what the new Ambala-Panchkula Commissioner of Police (CP) Ramesh Chandra Mishra had to say on Tuesday -- his first official day at the Panchkula office, where he started a 15-day campaign to end the drug problem from his commissionerate. He has also asked all officers to prepare a survey of migrants living in the district.
The CP, talking to ToI, informed that in their 15-day campaign, they will find and identify all drug peddlers in the commissionerate, and will take strict action against them.They will also educate school and college-going students to keep away from all such activities for living a better life. Mishra also asked all cops to write down the names, addresses, contact numbers, and other details of migrants along with their photographs, so that in case of an emergency, all of them can be identified easily. He has also asked all sarpanches, panches, and heads of villages to maintain the same database of migrants living in their villages.
The CP informed that he believed in working with the community, "as a single man cannot do anything without the support of the community." He also informed that he needed the support of people of Panchkula and various NGOs, to carry out community policing for the betterment of citizens. For effective policing, Mishra has also spoken to the Chandigarh inspector general of police (IG), TS Luthra, and both have agreed to work together. Mishra will also request higher authorities to increase their manpower, as there was an acute shortage of staff in the district. He added: "If the community is active, there is less possibility of crime in that place, and I will work with citizens of Panchkula in various ways. I have to work on various things to improve policing. And I will sit in Ambala and Panchkula on alternate days."