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Blood is Priceless because blood neither can be produced in the factory nor can be procured from any other resource. Human source is the only resource that can provide blood. Thus it is needless to mention the importance and necessity of this price less thing. Keeping it in mind the extreme necessity of blood, Kolkata Police, with a view to serve the community decide to organize regular Blood donation camp and committed itself to continue this benevolent initiative. Since this noble project has become a continuous flow of service to the human being it has been named as “UTSARGA”.

In the year 1998 on 11^th of February Kolkata police launched its 1^st blood donation camp at Lalbazar in collaboration with Institute of Blood Transfusion Medicine & Immunohaematology. Since then at all police establishments, across the city, one such blood donation camp is held every week on Saturday where policemen as well as local residents donate blood voluntarily. Statistics shows that an average of 60 units of blood is collected from the camp organized by Kolkata Police. Till date Kolkata Police has organised 1045 camps at the various units involving approx 63,968 active blood donors.  90% of donors’ card obtained from the Institute of Blood Transfusion Medicine & Immunohaematology are kept at the local Police Station / unit organized the camp and rest cards sent to Lalbazar Control Room. People of the locality in need of blood can collect donor’s card from the respective Police Stations/unit or from Lalbazar Control Room as well. As advised by Addl. CP (IV), now the details of the donors, e.g. Name, Address, Mobile no. and Blood group etc are kept in the data bank of Community Policing Wing office. Previously these were maintained by Blog cell, KP.

AIM

1. To inspare more police personnel for donating their blood.
2. Mantain data in more systematic way.
3. Widening the service area.
4. To conduct more such camps specially in summer period to meet up the crisis.