Haryana Government would set up police assistance booths on national highways (NH) 2 and 8 to prevent deaths in road accidents in the State. The police assistance booths would have paramedical staff for providing first-aid. Besides, these booths would have the facility of a police vehicle, ambulance and motorcycle rider.
Director General of Police KP Singh while talking to the mediapersons on Thursday at Panchkula said that these booths would be manned round-the-clock. He said that a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the same has been signed between Haryana Police and Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India Private limited. Under this agreement, the police assistance booths would be set up at a distance of every 10 km on the NHs.
Giving information about projects being implemented for road safety, Singh said that this model had already been initiated along NH-1 and would now be replicated on NH-2 and 8. The facility of 100 number would be linked with the booths so that primary assistance could be made available in emergencies of various kinds, said he.
The DGP said that software is being developed with the assistance of HARTRON which would be installed in these booths. With the help of the Honda Group, 100 police personnel have been imparted training at Police Training College to operate these 20 booths. CCTV cameras would also be installed along these booths at a distance of every 10 km, he added.
About the ongoing ‘Operation Durga’ to curb the instances of harassment of girls and eve-teasing outside educational institutions in the state, he said that the ‘Operation Durga’ is being implemented in the state. Since the Women Police Stations are bring established, patrolling is now being done near the markets and colleges in the state.
On Wednesday through video conferencing, instructions to carry out patrolling were issued in all districts. Personnel were instructed to take action against violators in case of any incident to make the operation effective, he added.
When asked about the vacant posts in the Police Department, the DGP said that advertisement for recruitment to 6,000 posts of police personnel would be published soon, and more than 14,000 posts would be filled in the department in two years. He said in the ongoing recruitment of 5,000 police personnel, more than 60 per cent candidates were graduates and 40 per cent post-graduates. The youth being recruited in Haryana Police are not only proficient in IT skills but also had academic and technical degrees, said he.
When asked about the implementation of police reforms submitted by the Prakash Singh Committee to the State Government, the DGP said that the image of the Haryana Police has improved. In Haryana, all suggestions concerning police reforms submitted by the Prakash Singh Committee in the court have been implemented. These included posting station house officer, deputy superintendent of police and director general of police in scheduled time, weekly holidays for police personnel, and separating crime from investigation, he added.