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Some may aver that a FOP or a citizen volunteer cannot be an effective substitute for the inadequate manpower in police forces in India or world-wide. In actual point of fact, the citizen volunteer or FOP is a more effective substitute- mere increase in police strength does not have a corresponding effect on crime or disorder or terrorism. But when citizens anonymously get associated with the police, without ever being noticed, they can individually pass on accurate and timely intelligence to the police as it happened in the recent Times Square incident where a pavement vendor noticed some smoke in a SUV and intimated the police, averting a major terror incident in a crowded area. The police in existence in every state and nation should facilitate citizens to participate in policing as FOPs - they only need to play the role of facilitators and investigators in actual crimes reported.