Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat will inaugurate the first child friendly police station of Uttarakhand on January 22 which is meant to provide a friendly environment to children associated with crimes.
According to the chairperson of State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (SCPCR) Usha Negi, the children who are either victims or need proper counselling or visit police station due to other reasons should be provided with a comfortable and unintimidating environment rather than keeping them in a dull and scary atmosphere. To keep children at ease, the walls are painted in bright colours and cartoons and the police personnel will also be dressed in casual clothes rather than their uniforms. Negi informed that the child friendly police unit has been set up in the Dalanwala police station with a budget of about Rs five lakhs on the recommendation of the Child Protection Committee of Uttarakhand. The officials informed that the commission has approached CM to inaugurate the station weeks ago but he couldn't do it due to his health issues but now the CM has given his nod to inaugurate the child friendly police station on Friday.
