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| March 1, 2010 | Kerala opens police station for foreign tourists as harassment cases mount | | Kochi (Kerala): Apparently in an attempt to ensure the safety of much harassed foreign tourists who visit Kerala and get trapped in the notorious massage parlours run in the name of ayurveda, a novel foreign tourist police station has been opened in Kochi.
The government claims its cops are determined to protect the tourists from foreign
countries, and turn the state more tourist-friendly. Home and Tourism Minister
Kodiyeri Balakrishnan on Saturday officially inaugurated the tourist police station and
a police museum at Mattanchery near Kochi, which is said to be the first of its kind in
the country. Mattanchery, which is known world over for the Jewish synagogue and
holds an important place in the map, receives tourists in large numbers. The special
station will have all facilities to assist foreign travellers, to clear their doubts on
passport and visa, guidelines to lodge complaints about lost passports and to renew
expired visas. The police would tie up with Department of Tourism to set up a help
desk at the station, where route maps and brochures about different tourist
destinations in the State would be available. Also, the station will have facilities for
tourists to make booking for boating as well as hiring taxis. A tourism carnival in
which there were 80 floats, including folk dancers performing and police uniforms
were also taken out on the occasion. Another highlight is the police museum that
would display police uniforms and armoury used in the force, right from the colonial
period to the present. State owned Tourism Department would initiate to publish all
the details of tourism police and its services in all leading tourism journals in
the world. | |
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