Prabha Shares

21st October is being celebrated as Police Commemoration Day as an act of paying respect to the brave police personnel who sacrificed their lives while in service. On this great occasion, as a proud daughter of a great police officer and as an aspirant who had the great ambition of becoming an IPS officer myself, I would like to share a valuable experience I underwent at Tamilnadu Police Academy which is located near Vandalur, Chennai. It was ten years before when I was totally shattered by the heavy loss of losing my father and my ambition together, I got a precious opportunity to take part in a program called “Citizen Cop” arranged by an NGO named PCVC in collaboration with the Tamilnadu Police. It was a five days program in which the organization selected a few school-going students of higher secondary level and were imparted a basic level training about the police and the working method of the department.   The project coordinator was my well-wisher so I had the opportunity to tak

The lock-up death of a father and the son in Saathaankulam of Thuthukudi district by two police officers is really disheartening. This is not the first case but still when the whole nation is already suffering due to the COVID-19 and when the police force is at the very need in controlling and securing the public, such cases are really condemnable. The crime by a few ends up blaming the entire police department and I myself a proud daughter of a policeman is really worried about those officers who are sincere and passionate about their duty. I would like to share the positive faces of the police which I witnessed personally during my father’s service period. Around the year 2000, there was a focus on the behavior of the police and the then chief minister wanted to ensure the police-public smooth relationship. A project called “Kaavalthurai Ungal Nanban” was introduced meaning Police are your friends. Under this project, certain protocols were prescribed to the police. When the public a

Today after the high court judgment in Udumalaipet Shankar - Kausalya case, Honor killing is the talk of the town. Media is summarizing similar cases and people are so frustrated about caste fanaticism and the young couple who were murdered in the name of honor killing. I would like to place a point that even the friends who support or help these couples also get affected at times which also should be brought under the limelight. Here I am sharing a true story of a double murder case solved by my father based on my point. Around twenty years back, my father was serving as Inspector of Police. One morning when he was busy with the case files in the police station, a shepherd boy came running to the station. When enquired he said that he saw human bones in the hilly area where he took his herd for grazing. Immediately my father and his crew reached the spot and found a human skeleton with a few left out flesh meaning the body has been disposed of here a few days back. When the crew inten