Kiran Bedi now on new mission: "Mission Safer India"

NI Wire

New Delhi

Sat, 05 Jan 2008: 

Former Police officer and lady icon Kiran Bedi is now on a new mission after getting retirement from the Delhi police. She has launched yesterday an online complaining website under her mission “Mission Safer India” to help those poor whose grievances are not registered on the police file.

Kin Bedi, who recently resigned the police service, is now working as a social volunteer with her founded Non-government organisation “India Vision Foundation” to achieve her goal to make India safer after quitting police uniform.

For reaching her project she has nexus with mobile mantra, an online service providing company to launch her unofficial website saferindia.com to make a bridge between complainants and police services to seek appropriate redress.

“The website is aimed at extending help to those whose complaints are not heard by the police. It will entertain only those who went to police stations but their complaints went unheard, unacknowledged or not registered,” said Bedi on the occasion of unveiling her website www.saferindia.com on Thursday in the capital.

Bedi beliefs that this website will make pressure to raise the voice of sufferer whose voice is unheard by the police. People can directly lodge their complaint on the website by completing the lodging process. The people have to login the site for submitting the grievances.

“We want people to know that there is a website called saferindia.com by which an ordinary man can log in a complaint by spending only Rs 25,” said former IPS officer Kiran.

It is essential for the complainant to first visit police station for submitting their complaint, if the police unheard or unacknowledged, then the victim can lodge the complaint as Bedi informed media while introducing its characteristics and functionality.

“The complaint will go under scrutiny and after approval it will forwarded to the concerned officer or police headquarter for redressal,” said Kiran Bedi. “The team of retired police officers, law students and NGOs will analysis the fairness of the complaint and then it will further forwarded,” added Kiran.

“The forge, defamatory, libellous complaint based on personal revenge will not be forwarded and comes under legal action,” said former IG of Tihar jail.

Bedi accepts that police deny to lodge complaint for showing reduced crime record many times and also mislead media and government by playing with crime record statistics to represent their good image before them.

“I have an inside of knowledge of policing and I know the strength and weaknesses of the department. This is the time for me to utilise my experience in serving people as an ordinary citizen. A lot of complaints go unregistered due to the callous attitude of police personnel. We want the common citizen to come forward and lodge genuine complaints. This would put a pressure on the police department to take complaints seriously and act accordingly,” said Bedi.

Bedi has clearly mentioned in the website that this website “is a bridge between the police and the complainant and Not an investigating agency”.

Bedi has resigned from Delhi police services when her demand of asking the top seat of Delhi police had been rejected by the authority and Y S Dadwal, who was junior to her got the same post last year. Serving as an IPS officer, Bedi had worked in several posts including deputy inspector general of police in Mizoram, inspector general of police in Chandigarh, director general of the Narcotics Control Bureau and as inspector general of police at New Delhi's Tihar Jail. She was the joint commissioner of training and also special commissioner in charge of intelligence when she had left the job.

Besides Police services, she has been the former all-India and all-Asia tennis champion, and won Raman Magsaysay award for her excellent work in India. She is the first lady IPS officer in India.