MLA Raj Sinha on Monday raised question regarding  making police stations and OP effective for common man, appointment of police personnel against  vacant posts and improving the policing system to curb rising crime in state in general and Dhanbad in particular besides increasing of police station in proportion to rise in population.

Sinha described the reply given by the government in response to his  question as misleading. While speaking in the Assembly on Monday he made  the House aware of the actual situation, and said that neither police stations nor OPs have been created as per the standards of the National Police Commission. All the police stations and OPs that are there at present in this state and Dhanbad district  were created in  the 90s while  the population of Dhanbad has crossed  30 lakh. Majority of the OPs are running in rented houses, they do not have the complete system, they have a shortage of manpower whereas  there has been an uncontrollable, unexpected increase in criminal incidents in proportion to the police stations, OPs and police personnel. The law and order situation in Dhanbad, besides  the entire state, has collapsed, he claimed . In 80 percent of the cases, the criminals are acquitted by court in absence of concrete evidence and this shows how the officers investigate cases .  Sinha also raised the issue of rise  in incidents of extortion and threats from businessmen, doctors, and others in Dhanbad and demanded  immediate crackdown on criminals. He also demanded filling up of vacant posts of police personnel so that economic related  crime too  can be controlled.