Managing traffic in urban areas and social media big challenges for police: HM

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today flagged issues of burgeoning traffic due to rapid urbanisation and rumour mongering through the social media as major challenges before the police in the country.

After inaugurating the 2nd conference of young Superintendents of Police, the Home Minister also asked senior police officers to behave in a respectable and decent manner with their sub-ordinates and those in the constabulary in order to have good morale in the forces.

The two-day conference is being organised by the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPRD) that functions under the Union Home Ministry.

"The police has numerous challenges and with rapid urbanisation, traffic management is becoming a big problem. We (the police and security establishment) will have to think about it and find effective solutions," the minister said.

In Delhi too, Singh said, "people have to face the traffic problems and we get regular complaints on this subject."
Talking to the SPs and Commandant rank officers of various state police and central paramilitary forces, the Home Minister said the menace of spreading malicious news and rumours using various social media platforms is a "big challenge."
He stressed that "predictive policing" should be taken up more and more in the police agencies so that "crime is stopped before it happens."