Mumbai police discuss safety and security issues with Bollywood

Talks centered on dignified portrayal of police and women in films

geetanjali

Geetanjali Minhas | November 12, 2013



As a part of image building exercise, members of film and television fraternity met Mumbai police yesterday to discuss the dignified portrayal of police and women in films.

In the packed closed door meeting attended by senior police officers and prominent Bollywood  and television personalities, Mumbai police commissioner, Satyapal Singh requested members of Bollywood  to portray women and police in good light as this will help maintain safety of women and maintaining of law and order in society.        

Later addressing the media, the police commissioner said, “Police is an institution of government and its face. Projecting its right image will help making the city safer. Film industry is the most creative section of society and we have asked them to them to help police and society in crimes against women, terrorism, and community bonding and making the city a safer place.”

Terming the meeting as “extremely fruitful and satisfying” Joint CP Crime, Himanshu Roy said that more initiatives of similar kind will be taking place in days to come.

Expressing happiness on opening lines of communication by the police commissioner, writer and lyricist, Javed Akhtar said that the issue here was how to come together and collaborate so that better rapport and understanding is created between police and people.

“One section of society wants security, harmony, love and peace to prevail while the other section is against it.  While there is no difference in the industry and police point of view through films we convey message to the society. Like police, the film industry too wants peace, love and security,” he said.

Admitting that some films portray women in an undesirable manner, Akhtar said that if the film does not convey a sense of morality and code of conduct followed by society it will be rejected.  



 

 

Comments

 

Other News

When police data becomes the algorithm

For decades, policing has followed a familiar sequence: a crime occurs, the police respond, an investigation produces records and those records become part of the institutional memory of the criminal justice system. Artificial intelligence is beginning to alter that sequence. Instead of merely recording

Before India voted, the framers worried about the referee

“We are making a Constitution forever and not only for today.” Shibban Lal Saksena said this in the Constituent Assembly on June 15, 1949. He was warning that a ruling party might one day choose a loyalist to run India’s elections. Seventy-seven years later, the Supreme Court is wrestli

Delhi moves to real-time traffic management

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), chaired by prime minister Narendra Modi, has approved implementation of the ITMS Project by Delhi Police at an estimated cost of Rs.1,789.52 crore, inclusive of taxes. The project will cover 42 identified traffic corridors and will be implemented in three

MDR on UPI: Can sustainability come without weakening the network?

The extraordinary transaction volumes and value (₹29.82 Lakh crore in August 2026 alone) of the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) have made it not only an Indian success story, but a global one. In 2024, UPI accounted for nearly 49% of the world’s real-time payment transaction volume, with more th

The Xi-Trump summit: The unending rivalry

Diplomacy is akin to an art, wherein the summitry, conflict resolution and negotiations form apt constituents of the entire context of deal making and “playing for keeps” in the international arena. The Xi-Trump summit in Washington last week, in which the American president broke all conside

“Indians, yet treated like outsiders”

Moving to Delhi-NCR for education can be an exciting experience for students from Northeast India. It gives us a chance to meet new people, experience a different culture and become more independent. But living away from home also comes with challenges that people who have not experienced them may not al

Upcoming Conferences



-->

Archives

Current Issue

Opinion

Facebook Twitter Google Plus Linkedin Subscribe Newsletter

Twitter