Vacancies affecting police efficiency, says DGP -----“Community policing in Rourkela soon”
Rourkela: Terming the Maoist problem as the
biggest challenge for the state police, Director General of Police (DGP)
Prakash Mishra today said the situation was particularly bad in five districts:
Koraput, Malkangiri, Balangir, Bargarh and Nabarangpur.
On a day’s visit to the Steel City,
Mishra, however, claimed that eight of the 16 districts earlier affected by
Maoist activities were now completely devoid of Maoism due to vigorous action
by the police. These eight districts are Nayagarh, Dhenkanal, Jajpur, Deogarh,
Gajapati, Rayagada, Nuapada and Sundargarh, he said. The State police planned
to carry out more operations in Maoist affected districts with deployment of
more personnel, greater patrolling and setting up of police head posts and
control rooms.
Leaders of the Maoist factions from
neighbouring Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh calling the shots in the Maoist
affected areas, Mishra said adding efforts were on to isolate them. In reply to
a question, he said Odisha Communist Party leader Sabyasachi Panda had his
support base in Ganjam, Gajapati and Kandhamal districts. He reiterated his
appeal to Panda to shun the path of violence and join the mainstream.
Maintaining that a large number of
vacancies at the inspector and sub-inspector levels had affected the efficiency
of the police force, the DGP said steps were being taken to recruit more
officers to get over this problem. “About 350 officers will join the force after
completing their training this year and a similar number will pass out the next
year. We hope to fill up all the vacancies in the next two to three years,” he
said.
Mishra said community policing will be
launched shortly in three cities of the state, including Rourkela. “We are
working on greater visibility of police personnel to give a sense of security
to the citizenry,” he said.
Two elite units, each with strength of
about 100 specially trained police personnel, will be set up in Bhubaneswar and
Puri to tackle urban crime in the next 6-7 months. Sophisticated and modern
weapons would be provided to these two units, he added. He, however, remained
non-committal about conferment of commissionerate status to Rourkela.
Various sections of people met the DGP
and submitted memorandums on issues related to increase of crime and the
deterioration of law and order situation in Rourkela as well as in Sundargarh
district.
Mishra inaugurated two well furnished
and improvised police stations at Jhirpani and Chhend here. As Chief Guest at
the Inter-District Police Hockey championship, he gave away prizes to the
winners and the runners-up team.
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