Summary:
The Punjab Police on Monday marked its presence on the social media to counter misinformation campaign and false propaganda unleashed by radicals or gangsters to influence people, especially youth. The social media accounts will provide an effective forum for information dissemination/feedback/complaint channelling, said the chief minister, urging the police to harness the social media power effectively, for the mutual benefit of the force and the citizens. Social media can be of immense help in effectively handling law and order situations, prevention and detection of crimes, and other aspects of policing, he said. The DGP said the police would use the three social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter and YouTube) to come closer to the people. The move of the Punjab Police setting up a social media cell came in the backdrop of radicalisation campaign being carried out on various platforms of the social media and Amarinder Singh had also directed the state police to remain vigilant against such campaigns in November last year..