In a philanthropic gesture, BS Sidhu, State Director General of Police, spent hours with some specially-abled children at Raphael Ryder Cheshire Dehradun to mark the completion of the one year of his tenure on Tuesday. While interacting with the media persons, Sidhu said he has taken several steps to better policing and to strengthen the investigating machinery in the State.
Sidhu who reached along with his family members, including wife and son at Raphael, interacted with the children, danced with them to the tune of some popular Bollywood songs and later served them with food.
“My one year tenure as DGP was far from a smooth sailing. The challenges were daunting, to say the least. However, I have contributed my mite in bettering policing in the state.” In the past one year, Homicide Investigation Cell was formed in Dehradun, Haridwar, Udham Singh Nagar and Nainital to strengthen investigation and disposal of old murder and heinous crime cases. City Patrol Unit was formed in Haridwar and Dehradun to impose penalty on the traffic rule violators. Swift response teams were formed too to curb crimes like chain snatching, eve-teasing and some other offences in the city. State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) was formed to strengthen the relief and rescue operations to adequately deal with the natural calamities as well as to ensure the safety of the pilgrims and the common people in the state. To put check on the illegal mining activities, Illegal Mining Prevention Vigilance was formed too.
Special investigation Team has been formed for swift redressal of land disputes. To collect scientific evidences after the occurrence of heinous crimes, three mobile forensic investigation vans have been recently pressed into service, the DGP said.