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Opinion
Dayananda: Karnataka avoids political witch hunting seen in other states
“The political witch hunting which happens in other states is not here. And Bangalore city offers a good comfortable place to stay for education, for health, and so many other aspects.”
B. Dayananda May 12, 2025 ▶ 52:30 Nikhil Kamath ft. Police Comm'r & Traffic Police Comm'r of Bengaluru | WTF is Policing? | Special Ep · Nikhil Kamath
Opinion
Dayananda: VIP Traffic Clearance Is a Security Necessity, Not Showmanship
“For a person holding the position of Chief Minister or even the Governor or the Prime Minister, it becomes all the more necessity. And not a matter of, you know, a kind of a show off kind of a thing. But it becomes a matter of necessity. He has to move. Plus, …”
B. Dayananda May 12, 2025 ▶ 36:36 Nikhil Kamath ft. Police Comm'r & Traffic Police Comm'r of Bengaluru | WTF is Policing? | Special Ep · Nikhil Kamath
Opinion
Dayananda: Policing is the only government department providing instant justice
“More importantly, if you think from the police perspective, police department is the only department where you can provide instant justice to the people. In all other departments, you will either be pushing files or even you move some proposal by the time it g…”
B. Dayananda May 12, 2025 ▶ 41:26 Nikhil Kamath ft. Police Comm'r & Traffic Police Comm'r of Bengaluru | WTF is Policing? | Special Ep · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dayananda: Very few retired IPS or civil service officers succeed in politics
“None, none, none of the IPS officers or All India service officers who have joined politics after retirement have been successful. Very few.”
B. Dayananda May 12, 2025 ▶ 54:03 Nikhil Kamath ft. Police Comm'r & Traffic Police Comm'r of Bengaluru | WTF is Policing? | Special Ep · Nikhil Kamath
Insight
Dayananda: Urban flyovers do not solve city traffic problems
“But then one common sense this thing is that flyovers do not solve police traffic problems.”
B. Dayananda May 12, 2025 ▶ 1:05:56 Nikhil Kamath ft. Police Comm'r & Traffic Police Comm'r of Bengaluru | WTF is Policing? | Special Ep · Nikhil Kamath
Insight
Dayananda: Police must always help the victim and accept inevitable criticism
“Because ultimately in police, either you have to be with the victim or with the accused. If you help the victim, accused will blame you. If you help the accused, the victim will blame you. So better to help the victim and let the accused, let them say what the…”
B. Dayananda May 12, 2025 ▶ 13:09 Nikhil Kamath ft. Police Comm'r & Traffic Police Comm'r of Bengaluru | WTF is Policing? | Special Ep · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Partly supported
Dayananda: Over 97% of Bengaluru traffic challans are now contactless
“So nearly over 97% of our chalanengi is contactless. Only three percent. That is drunk driving, then signal jump, and a few other. Specific drives they do. Only that one, they do physical enforcement. Rest all is contactless.”
B. Dayananda May 12, 2025 ▶ 26:01 Nikhil Kamath ft. Police Comm'r & Traffic Police Comm'r of Bengaluru | WTF is Policing? | Special Ep · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dayananda: Karnataka cadre officers generally avoid central government postings
“Officers from Karnataka corridor do not like to go to the centre. Forget about us insiders, even the outsiders who have come here, like from other states, like generally it is, ah, out of every four posts, three positions will be held by the outsiders, and one…”
B. Dayananda May 12, 2025 ▶ 52:01 Nikhil Kamath ft. Police Comm'r & Traffic Police Comm'r of Bengaluru | WTF is Policing? | Special Ep · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Partly supported
Dayananda: Cybercrime exceeds 40% of reported offenses in Bengaluru tech corridors
“Now we are having nearly about 20, 25% of our crimes are cyber crimes now. Maybe in the coming days, in certain divisions, it is already, it has already crossed 40, 45%, like Whitefield Division and Southeast Division. About 40% of the crimes are cyber crimes.”
B. Dayananda May 12, 2025 ▶ 1:17:36 Nikhil Kamath ft. Police Comm'r & Traffic Police Comm'r of Bengaluru | WTF is Policing? | Special Ep · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Supported
Dayananda: Bengaluru police patrol vehicles arrive within eight minutes of dispatch
“Generally, our response time has been around eight minutes. That is, the petrol vehicle, after the information is sent to them, the time they take to reach the spot.”
B. Dayananda May 12, 2025 ▶ 2:52 Nikhil Kamath ft. Police Comm'r & Traffic Police Comm'r of Bengaluru | WTF is Policing? | Special Ep · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Supported
Dayananda: Bengaluru police handle 8,000 to 9,000 calls daily, dispatching 1,400
“Every day we get about 8009 thousand calls out of which nearly about 1400 are active calls. In the sense where we have to send the hoistada.”
B. Dayananda May 12, 2025 ▶ 3:22 Nikhil Kamath ft. Police Comm'r & Traffic Police Comm'r of Bengaluru | WTF is Policing? | Special Ep · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dayananda: Bengaluru police solve many hit-and-runs with number plate recognition
“We are put up in very strategic locations, so match comes and now we are getting results also, especially number plate recognition in accidents and all. They are getting a lot of hit and run cases being solved. Because of the number plate recognition.”
B. Dayananda May 12, 2025 ▶ 5:08 Nikhil Kamath ft. Police Comm'r & Traffic Police Comm'r of Bengaluru | WTF is Policing? | Special Ep · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Partly supported
Dayananda: 72% of all vehicles in Bengaluru are two-wheelers
“72% of the vehicles in Bangalore city are two-wheelers.”
B. Dayananda May 12, 2025 ▶ 1:11:27 Nikhil Kamath ft. Police Comm'r & Traffic Police Comm'r of Bengaluru | WTF is Policing? | Special Ep · Nikhil Kamath
Disclosure
Dayananda: Bengaluru police leadership routinely works half-days on Sundays
“Generally, we work on Sunday, at least one session, come to office, catch up with the old work, whatever, pending work is there. Half a day goes in that way.”
B. Dayananda May 12, 2025 ▶ 1:50 Nikhil Kamath ft. Police Comm'r & Traffic Police Comm'r of Bengaluru | WTF is Policing? | Special Ep · Nikhil Kamath
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