T.N. DGP orders all police officers to conduct ‘Open Grievance Day’ every Wednesday, Saturday

Subscribed with another email? Logout and Login with that one. Account subscription benefits alongside Premium Stories, Editorials, Opinions and more. Unlock these with Subscription The View From India Looking at World Affairs from the Indian perspective. First Day First Show News and reviews from the world of cinema and streaming. Today's Cache Your download of the top 5 technology stories of the day. Science For All The weekly newsletter from science writers takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! Data Point Decoding the headlines with facts, figures, and numbers THEdge At the cutting edge of education and careers Health Matters Ramya Kannan writes to you on getting to good health, and staying there Gender Agenda Stories from beyond the binary. The Hindu On Books Books of the week, reviews, excerpts, new titles and features. Published - June 24, 2026 12:35 am IST - CHENNAI Mahesh Kumar Aggarwal. | Photo Credit: JOTHI RAMALINGAM B In order to ensure speedy and effective redressal of public grievances, Director General of Police/Head of Police Force (HoPF) Mahesh Kumar Aggarwal has issued instructions to all police officers to conduct ‘Open Grievance Day’ every Wednesday and Saturday for 2 hours from 11 am to 1 pm. In addition to public approaching police officials at any time, instructions have been issued that officers of the rank of Station House Officers (SHOs), Deputy Superintendents of Police (DSPs), Superintendents of Police (SPs), Deputy Inspector Generals of Police (DIGs), Inspector Generals of Police (IGs) and Commissioners of Police in cities shall remain available in their office during this period and address the grievance of any public approaching police officials. Mr. Aggarwal said instructions have also been issued to ensure courteous treatment and prompt redressal of the grievances in a time-bound manner. This has been introduced to avoid people waiting to meet the officers, as the police officials attend to various duties like conducting investigation, attending courts, meetings, law and order bandobust duties. The officers have been instructed to make efforts to be present during the designated time and in case of any urgency, they shall depute officers next in command to attend the public grievance meeting. Further, the performance of officers in this regard shall be monitored by the Police Headquarters, said the DGP. Copyright© 2026, THG PUBLISHING PVT LTD. or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. Terms & conditions | Institutional Subscriber Comments have to be in English, and in full sentences. They cannot be abusive or personal. Please abide by our community guidelines for posting your comments. We have migrated to a new commenting platform. If you are already a registered user of The Hindu and logged in, you may continue to engage with our articles. If you do not have an account please register and login to post comments. Users can access their older comments by logging into their accounts on Vuukle.

T.N. DGP orders all police officers to conduct ‘Open Grievance Day’ every Wednesday, Saturday

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