Nagaland Deputy Chief Minister Yanthungo Patton on Friday held a gathering with senior law enforcement officials and unit commanders in presence of DGP Rupin Sharma and Additional DGPs R P Kikon and Sandeep Tamgadge at police headquarters in Kohima dialogue regulation and order scenario within the state.
Patton, who holds cost of the Home Department, requested the state police chief to cut back the quantity of personnel posted as bodyguards and likewise to provoke stern action against personnel found under the influence of intoxicants.
Pointing out that just about 3,000 personnel of Nagaland Police are connected both as bodyguards or for non-police duties, he careworn on the pressing requirement to cut back such deployments and attachments in order that extra manpower is obtainable for policing and regulation and order works.
Maintaining that police personnel are the eyes and ears of the division and the guardian of the residents in phrases of security and safety, he stated folks have excessive expectations from the pressure.
However, the DyCM stated many police personnel are found under the influence of alcohol or drug abuse and stated such misconduct or indiscipline behaviour of the personnel must be checked sternly and vital punitive action be taken.
Appreciating the police division for the safety measures throughout the simply concluded state Assembly elections, he stated some stray incidents of ballot associated violence have been witnessed however the scenario within the state was peaceable.
After the unlucky December 2021 incident at Oting in Mon district, the Committee arrange by the Ministry of Home Affairs had lifted AFSPA from 15 police station jurisdictions of Nagaland and the first function of sustaining regulation and order and tackling of insurgents has fallen on the shoulders of the police, he stated.
Maintaining that Nagaland Police has grown from 1,000 sturdy pressure in Nineteen Eighties to about 26,000 in 2023, he stated there’s an pressing want to enhance the effectivity of the division, which could be performed by re-organization and restructuring the police pressure in order that higher and optimum utilization of manpower and assets could be undertaken.
The high quality and thoroughness of investigation and investigation work wants an instantaneous uplift, he stated.
He additionally requested for correct proposals with applicable justification for budgetary allocations to take care of new-age crimes like cybercrimes, cyber frauds, financial offences and breaches of cyber safety.
Speaking within the assembly DGP Rupin Sharma stated that the state police has prioritised the ‘War On Drugs’ as primary precedence.
“We realized the need for a multi-pronged approach to combat this menace and decided that we need to educate our police personnel too about the ill-effects of the menace and the seriousness of the problem,” he stated.
The DGP appealed to his personnel hooked on liquor or medicine to voluntarily come ahead in order that they might be rehabilitated, if not they might face suspension or termination from service if caught by the division.
Nagaland Police would maybe be the primary police pressure within the nation to manage this anti-Narcotics pledge to all its personnel, he stated.
The DGP asserted that Nagaland Police would depart no stone unturned in the direction of sustaining a greater, peaceable and fear-free surroundings within the state which might assist in ushering a brand new period of growth and progress within the state.
(With PTI enter)
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