Soon after the new Government made it clear that it is determined to have crimes curbed through making police more effective, the State police brass has decided to launch a special month-long campaign across the State starting from March 21. Informing, the State Director General of Police MA Ganapathy said on Monday that the district senior police officers have been directed to review the crime status in their jurisdictional limits and to give necessary instructions to their sub-ordinates on how to streamline policing to make it more effective. He announced the decision of the special campaign after he met the senior police officers.
Ganapathy said that the police station officers and police personnel have been directed to be more serious in their works. The absconders should be promptly arrested, he said, while stressing on the immediate arrests of the criminals who have cash rewards on them for their arrests.
Criminal cases lodged in the police stations should be sorted out at the earliest, the State police chief said while adding that effective measures should be taken to stamp out the drug peddling menace with a heavy hand.
DGP also mentioned the spiralling number of the land fraud cases while saying that the police officers must solve such cases in a month after the complaints are registered. The same was true regarding the pending cases, he said.
Ganapathy further said that the additional senior superintendents of police and deputy superintendents of police have been directed to conduct psychical inspection of the police stations. “The district police chiefs, additional SPs and DSPs will conduct inspection of the police stations from time to time. Besides, the district police chiefs would review the crime status with the officers on a daily basis. Such reviews at the range level will be held once a week while the same at the police headquarter level will be held on a fortnightly basis,” he said.
Others present on the occasion were additional DGP (administration) Ashok Kumar, ADGP (law and order) Ram Singh Meena and IG (law and order) Deepam Seth.