Banking Precautions:
1. Do not give introduction to an unknown person for opening an account in your Bank.
2. Never encash cheques/drafts of an unknown person through your account.
3. Do not keep your account inoperative for a long time.
4. To avoid theft in postal transit or courier services and subsequent cheating, keep track of the cheques/drafts/pay orders sent through post & couriers services.
5. As far as possible, bank transactions should be handled personally.
6. Take care of your cheques books. Do not keep signed cheques in the drawer or any place where outsiders have an easy access.
7. All bank transactions should be counter checked to ensure that the deposited cheque have realised.
8. The monthly statement of your bank account should be invariably checked.
9. At the time of withdrawal of cash, account holder should physically check the cash counter. Never hand over the cash to a third person for counting.
To avoid bouncing of cheques:
1. Insist for D.D. or Pay Orders if you are dealing with an unknown party.
2. Postdated cheques should be avoided
3. If a cheque bounces you should give a notice to the person within 15 days of such intimation and if no reply is received, you should file a complaint in the court under section138 of Negotiable Instruments Act, 1981 where effective remedies are available to the public. All cases of bounced cheques may not be offences of cheating under the Indian Penal Code.
Bomb Blast Precautions:
Citizens are requested that information regarding any suspicious activities, abandoned vehicles, articles, and other objects be promptly communicated to the police at the nearest police station or on telephone No. 100. The police also be informed of any strangers who may have come to stay in your neighborhood and whose activities appear suspicious. Information given by citizens regarding any suspicious persons and their activities will be kept confidential.
The police will continue to organise nakabandis, combing and search operations and therefore citizens are requested to cooperate and bear with inconvenience, if any.
Citizens may please note the following precautions:
1. Stay calm and do not get panick.
2. Discourage rumour mongering.
3. Do not touch any unidentified object. Explosive could be concealed in anything like toys, transistors, lunch boxes.
4. Do not accept any parcel from strangers.
5. Sensitise your all family members, especially children.
6. Ensure that you roll up all windows and quarter glasses of the vehicle and lock up the vehicle every time you park it. Bonnet and dickey should also be properly secured
7. Before opening a car door, driver make sure that its dickey, bonnet, doors have not tempered with. If there is any suspicion, help of local police should be taken.
8. Pass on information about the abandoned vehicles, articles etc. promptly to the police at the nearest police station or on phone number 100, 2561222 and 2564333.
In case policemen are chasing a criminal
1. Give way to police / police vehicles.
2. If possible, note down the number of the escaping vehicle and mentally note the features / attire of the criminals.
3. Remember the entry and exit routes of the criminals.
4. If possible, take photographs on your mobile's camera
5. Pass on the information with you to POLICE immediately & be available for answering queries.
In case you are caught in a riotous situation
1. Do not panic.
2. Quickly go away from the riotous mob.
3. Take shelter in built up areas or behind solid objects.(wall/ big stones etc.)
4. Try to locate/ remember the trouble makers. You can help police later with their description.
5. If possible take photograph (from safe distance) on your mobile's camera.
6. Move away to safety at the earliest possible opportunity.
7. Pass on the information with you to POLICE at the earliest opportunity & be available for answering queries.
If firing occurs while you are at work or walking on a street
1. Lie down on the ground immediately.
2. Do not show unwanted curiosity. The criminal may feel threatened and shoot at you.
3. If possible, move to a safer place, slowly, without drawing attention to yourself. Take cover behind solid objects like a car or a wall.
4. If you can see the criminals from your hiding place, try to note and remember their features.
5. If you are out of sight of the criminals, call up 100 and inform the Police.
6. If you are within earshot, try to remember the conversation between the criminals.
7. Do not disturb the scene of the crime.
General securities
For Residential Areas:
Hire qualified / experienced chowkidars only.
Check the antecedents / credentials of chowkidars and domestic servants before hiring them. Insist on references from their previous employers. Furnish their full particulars to your police station in the format suggested by them.
Always employ different chowkidars for day and night duties.
Secretaries of the Societies should be advised to brief all the security men/ chowkidars/ lift men about various aspects of security. Some of them are;
1. To make enquiry if a taxi or autorikshaw is seen parked inside the compound or outside the building for a long time.
2. To make enquiry with the people bringing in or taking out heavy parcels, suitcases, etc.
3. Inform Police in case they find any vehicle parked inside the building (if ownership is not known) for a long time.
4. The secretary of the society should be advised to brief all the residents on the following:
5. That whenever they employ any new servant, police station should be informed. His photographs, fingerprints and other details must be obtained.
6. Whenever any family plans to go out of the city for a long time, they should inform Police (beat officers), so that special watch can be kept.
7. They should be advised to install a door with iron bars inside the flat, superior quality night latches and special eye lens on the main door, so that the door is opened only after identifying the visitors. Ideally, interaction with strangers and vendors should be through the grilled door. Also install a high wattage light source with pilfer proof cover outside the main door.
8. They should not keep huge cash, valuable ornaments etc., in the house but may use bank lockers.
9. They should avoid discussing money transactions and other important family matters in the presence of servants/ outsiders.
10. They should not humiliate the servants on petty matters. Nor should they penalise them for small damages.
11. It is important to inform the Police about any suspicious happening or unclaimed object found in suspicious circumstances. Extend full cooperation to the Police.
12. A special register should be maintained at every society and kept in the custody of the chowkidar or in the society's office. Whenever Police officers visit the area, they should make an entry in such registers.
