Delhi

I-Day: Delhi Police holds inter-State coordination meeting

Staff Reporter

In view of the upcoming Independence Day, the Delhi Police held an inter-state coordination meeting with its counterparts in the neighbouring states at Police Headquarters in the national Capital.

Delhi Police Commissioner, Rakesh Asthana chaired the meeting which was attended by top brass from Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar, Rajasthan, Chandigarh and Jammu and Kashmir.

The Additional Director General of Police (DGP), Meerut (UP), Additional DG, Rohtak (Haryana), CP, Noida, CP, Gurugram, IGP, Rewari and DIG, Uttrakhand were among officers who joined the meeting physically at Vimarsh conference hall.

“The objective of the meeting was to share terror-related intelligence and inputs and take necessary measures in the run up to the Independence Day celebrations and also to deliberate upon plans for bigger coordinated action among states in areas of policing which have implications for national capital,” said Chinmoy Biswal, the spokesperson of Delhi Police.

Addressing the officers, Asthana said that good cooperation between police forces of the country is the key to address all issues. He appreciated the cooperation extended by the neighbouring States Police and other states to Delhi Police in crime control and action on criminals.

Setting an action plan for immediate goal and long term goal,the Delhi CP also laid emphasis on intensive drives for preventive measures like tenants’ verification, hotels, guest houses checking and anti-terror alertness etc. in order to identify and counter any nefarious designs, and strong border checking actions to curb the movement of weapons, criminals and drugs into the national Capital.