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Written by G.K.Damani
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Friday, 03 October 2008 14:05 |
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We have been witnessing SERIAL blasts over the last 2 decades but have not taken any serious steps to fight it or reduce our people’s mortality rate. It is time that each state, city and police and people of each ward of the city should be prepared to take urgent defensive measures in the time of these blasts and I have devised a strategy to do this. If you notice the pattern of these blasts it will be clear that these occur one after another and not all at a time. This means that we can save many people from death or injury in the blasts following the first blast if we take appropriate action in those few minutes. Take 17 (seventeen) blasts which occurred in 70 (seventy) minutes in Ahmedabad which was long enough time to save most of the people who died or injured in the later sixteen blasts. Same was the case of Jaipur and Bangalore blasts.
So as we see that we cannot avoid Blasts totally, it is most important that we plan and adopt a strategy to reduce the mortality rate in the subsequent blasts.
Here is the outline of a strategy, I have devised, which can be adopted to save people from dying in the serial blasts
- Each police chowki should be trained in the following strategy to take action as soon as one blast is reported in any part of a city.
- In world war II, 1940, I was a small boy of 6 years living in Calcutta and we were trained to go underground or at least stay in our house as soon as a siren is heard which was blown immediately the military came to know that the enemy planes are coming towards the city. It happened a few times only in Calcutta but it used to happen every day in London.
- WHAT DO WE LEARN FROM THIS? We must learn to alert our cities and citizens as soon as the first of a serial blast occurs or any authentic information regarding the possibility is received like finding a bomb etc.
- How do we do it? We have to do it in more than one way.
- The public should be asked to report on phone immediately, within a few seconds, to the police, if a blast has occurred in their locality for which educated and responsible people should be pre trained in each locality under a police chowky. Special attention should be given to markets and busy crossings and special buildings like schools, colleges, hospitals, courts, malls, cinemas and particularly Railway stations etc where at least two or three people must be given training, and provided with loud speakers and special police emergency phone nos. to contact and these lines should always be free.
- Once police comes to know that a blast has occurred or a bomb has been found they should alert all police chowkies who in turn alert their contacts who may be shop keepers or other responsible citizens and tell them to announce on loud speakers that everyone must close their shops and all people in the area must leave and hide themselves in a safe place and not remain in the open streets or road or near any cycle, motor bike or motorcar or any vehicle for that matter.
- Police vans should start patrolling the areas under their jurisdiction and announce on loud speakers and ask people to stay at home or office or school or college, wherever they are and not to venture out till all clear announcement is made.
- People should be asked to challenge and detain any one who looks and behaves in suspicious manner and inform the police to come and deal with that person. No one from the public should try to beat or misbehave with such person.
- The most important way is to blow sirens throughout the city as soon as information of a blast is received from a reliable source. For this people of all walks of life will have to be trained till the police is satisfied that the people have learnt the drill. This will have to be repeated every three/six months without fail.
- All FM radio stations should be asked by the city police, to announce on their radio immediately about the blast which has happened and ask the people to take necessary precautions which should be very clearly explained.
- Every person in the city should be informed by SMS about the bomb blast or detection of a bomb and ask them to go to a safe place without any hurry or creating panic.
- I will like to be a part of this strategy and if possible help in adopting the same any where in India.
Jai Hind G.K. Damani
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Superb plan, we need something like this. But as you know our officials,