The officers will also start a WhatsApp group to help villagers address their various issues.
As many as 283 mother villagers come under the Coimbatore district police. In total, 397 police personnel (special sub-inspectors, head constables, grade one constables) have been appointed as VVPOs. Flex boards in each village have been installed giving the mobile numbers of VVPOs, police inspector, police sub-inspector and police station numbers. We have initiated the VVPOs across the district on January 1. The VVPOs would visit the village at least twice or thrice in a week and would meet grocery shopkeepers, autorickshaw drivers, village administrative officers (VAOs), panchayat ward members. The VVPO will be the first person to receive any information from the allotted village. He would collect advanced intelligence information from the villages, superintendent of police, Coimbatore district, Ara Arularasu said.
A Asiq Ahmed
COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore police on Friday night arrested a notorious motorcycle thief and recovered five stolen two-wheelers from him.
The arrested man has been identified as A Asiq Ahmed, 28, of Ashoka Street in Selvapuram. Police said the man was facing more than 20 motorcycle theft and robbery cases. Two years ago, he had attempted to murder a police sub-inspector at Palani in Dindigul district, the police said.
Race Course (crime) police inspector Sujatha said Asiq Ahmed was residing with his second wife at Valparai in Coimbatore district. He returned to Coimbatore city three months ago. “Asiq and his two accomplices had stolen around 15 motorcycles from various places in the city in the last three months. His accomplices are absconding,” said Sujatha.
Udhagamandalam: Sprawling across 1.13 acres on Garden Road in Ooty, the Assembly Rooms, stands tall. Established in 1886, this was a place for entertaining the then British settlers and was known as Ooty’s ‘cinema paradiso’. Nobody knows why it was called ‘Assembly Rooms’ but over the years, it became an institution in Ooty and locally well known as ‘Assems’.
Rummaging through history one finds that in 1922, Lord and Lady Willingdon - Governor of Madras and his wife- purchased the Assembly Rooms presumably from a Mr. Brown, for Rs.50,000. He created a trust with Lady Willingdon as the president, for the proper management and development. As per the trust deed, the Rooms were to be developed as a place for theatres, cultural events and musical performances. The trust deed explicitly states that the Rooms shall not be used at any time for political meetings.
Coimbatore: Chaos greeted motorists using Thadagam Road and the Edayarpalayam to Mettupalayam Road on Friday after the highways department closed the stretch of Mettupalayam Road from GN Mills to Ganga Hospital.
Vehicles lined up from KNG Pudur Junction till NSR Road junction after one side of Thadagam Road was blocked around 10.30am. “We were stuck on the stretch for almost 15 minutes. More than the traffic, it was the policemen standing at the junctions that caused the traffic jam,” said a frustrated businessman, driving to Vadavalli from Thudiyalur.
Three policemen who regulated traffic at Edayarpalayam junction allowed vehicles to pile up for more than 1km on all three sides.
The accident happened when the family was going to Thanjavur to visit temples there
COIMBATORE: Three members of a Coimbatore family died and three others suffered injuries when a car they were travelling in rammed the rear portion of a stationary truck at Vellakoil in Tirupur district in the early hours of Saturday.
The deceased have been identified as Mayilsamy, 39, of Singnallur, his wife Indhu, 27 and his mother Kousalya, 60. Mayilsamy’s son Guru Gowtham, 12, daughter Ramya Gandhimathi, 10, and his sister Kalaivani,35, suffered severe injuries. They were admitted to Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital (CMCH).
Police said Mayilsamy had been working in Dubai. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, he returned to his hometown.