When policemen log in — After the Dakshina Kannada district police blog, now Udupi and Chitradurga police are blogging too.
"For Mr. Dayananda, the blog has been a huge success story as far as he is concerned. "It was my intent to use an informal, flexible and manoeuvrable tool in the blog to communicate to the people in general and the media in particular. However, six months down the line, the gains from this initiative have far exceeded my expectations and things can only get better from this point on," he observes. If you compare them, he says, these blogs are more or less the same in their content, visualisation and approach. "The only difference is that the LAPD blog is comment enabled; that is, readers can express their views about the news posted by the department. It will take us some more time and resources to get trained man power to manage this on a day-to-day basis," he reasons. "With a little imagination and inclination, the sky is the limit in the IT-enabled world. We have used free tools available on the Net to improve the blog as the days have gone by. The only cost to the government is the Internet connection given to the district police office," he says." [Police News]
