Efforts to eradicate public fear of police: New SP BM Lakshmi Prasad
Mangaluru: The public is scared of police and police stations. Efforts will be made to eliminate it, said BM Lakshmi Prasad, DK's new SP.
Addressing media persons at the district SP office here on Wednesday, he said that there was a lack of communication between the police and the public. This causes more problems. "The public fear to inform regarding anti-social activities. To avoid this, action will be taken to create a people-friendly police system. Following which, people can visit police stations with their problems," he said.
Already beat police system exists in the district. It will be further organized. The trend of listening public's problems has been reduced in the police department. It can be solved only by looking to the issues. In this regard, the police will be instructed to find solutions to people's problems and resolve the issue, BM Lakshmi Prasad added.
Dakshina Kannada is the most sensitive district. The appropriate decision will be taken after carrying out discussions whenever problems and challenges arise. I have also understood that the rise in drugs and marijuana in the district is emerging as a challenge to the police department. It will be tackled.
Additional SP Sajit VJ and others were present.
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Canada's top envoy to US will resign before review of free trade agreement
Toronto (AP): Canada's ambassador to the US for the last six years said Tuesday she's resigning next year as the two major trading partners plan to review the free trade agreement.
Ambassador Kirsten Hillman said in a letter it is the right time to put in place someone who will oversee talks about the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement that is up review in 2026.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Hillman “prepared the foundations for Canada in the upcoming review" of the agreement.
Carney noted she's one of the longest-serving ambassadors to the United States in Canada's history.
Former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sent Hillman to the embassy as deputy ambassador in 2017. She became the first woman to represent Canada as ambassador in the US in 2019.
Hillman helped lead the trade negotiations during US President Donald Trump's first term as deputy and as ambassador worked with US and Chinese officials to win the release of two Canadians detained in China.
Dominic LeBlanc, the minister responsible for Canada-US trade, and Hillman had been leading trade talks with US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer.
US Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra said on social media that Hillman has been an “awesome and well-respected” contributor to the US-Canada relationship.
“I value your friendship and wish you all the best in your next adventure. You will be missed,” Hoekstra said.
Trump ended trade talks with Carney in October after the Ontario provincial government ran an anti-tariff advertisement in the US, which upset the US president. That followed a spring of acrimony, since abated, over Trump's insistence that Canada should become the 51st US state.
Asked this week when trade talks would resume, Trump said, “we'll see.”
Canada is one of the most trade-dependent countries in the world, and more than 75% of Canada's exports go to the US Most exports to the US are exempted by the USMCA trade agreement but that deal is up for review.
Carney aims to double non-US trade over the next decade.
About 60% of US crude oil imports are from Canada, and 85% of US electricity imports as well.
Canada is also the largest foreign supplier of steel, aluminum and uranium to the US and has 34 critical minerals and metals that the Pentagon is eager for and investing in for national security.
