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The police plan to start community policing from Salia Sahi, the biggest slum in the city. Anti-socials will also develop fear towards the community,” Mohanty said. BHUBANESWAR: If everything goes as planned, the commissionerate police will engage community police volunteers in slums to combat crimes with the help of the local communities. Now, we want to make our presence felt in slums,” Mohanty told TOI.Mohanty said slum dwellers will be involved in checking crimes in their areas. Police stations in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack have also been asked to create database of habitual criminals, arrested in different crime categories, from 2005 onwards.Commissioner of police Satyajit Mohanty said policing in slums requires urgent attention as those areas continued to be neglected for which many anti-social activities took place in regular interval.“We will soon launch a community policing scheme in slums..