coimbatore the tirupur city police have set up a library at the north police station traffic for school and college students the library has more than 3500 books on subjects like science social studies literature and mathematics police officials said school students had already begun visiting the library but it was yet to be officially open to the public a couple of months ago volunteers of a usbased nongovernmental organisation we serve foundation visited the tirupur city and handed over nearly 5000 books to the city police department the volunteers said they dedicated this to the service of various police officials and wanted their children to benefit from these books while the rotary club in palladam took 1500 books to set up a library for the government school children there the remaining 3500 books were stacked here in racks for the benefit of people in tirupur the volunteers of we serve foundation told toi that they had visited various districts in kerala and tamil nadu and donated more than 120000 books while all the other cities donated the books to rotary clubs tirupur city police decided to set up a library on their premises as there were several government schools located close by we knew its for the children and teachers and since we had the required space in this office we decided to set it up here said assistant commissioner traffic north k magudapathy who is an ardent reader himself he added that this would pave a way for more publicpolice interactions i just hope that teachers and students make use of these books and benefit from them he said police officials have already approached various schools and colleges in that area and have asked the principal and head masters to provide a letter from the school if they give us a letter and the schoolcollege id proof we will lend books to them free of cost said a police official children of cops could also benefit from the library we are planning to appoint a police official there who could be in charge of the records and also maintenance of the library slowly we will add other books also that could benefit people from all strata of society said tirupur city police commissioner s n seshasai the library would be open from 10am to 6pm he added