Director general of police, AK Gupta, who is set to retire later this month made maiden attempt to arrest the deteriorating law and order situation of the State by summoning the zonal inspector general of police and reviewing the present scenario with them. The top cop of the State laid emphasis on fitness of the police personnel besides calling them to make time bound disposals of all pending assignments. Reviewing the law and order situation of the State here at DGP office on Tuesday afternoon, AK Gupta, directed the officials that they must ensure full turn-out during weekly parade at Reserve Police Ground so that the cops should remained fit to meet out their assignments.
He also directed to hold `Orderly Room’ regularly so necessary action could be initiated against the cops who were not following the orders of their seniors or were not keeping themselves fit for the job. He also asked that transfer orders should be compliance within stipulated time and responsibility should be fixed for every task so reward and punishment could be awarded. Gupta said that he wanted to ensure maximum visibility of the cops on roads, to improve response time to any information, and to forward quick relief to the victims. He said that to check petty crimes, the constables and junior rank officials should remain on their respective beats and they must also ensure verification of tenants, servants, drivers, employees etc so that no one having dubious past could succeed in committing crime.
He also directed to install Close Circuit Televisions (CCTVs) around the school, colleges, and other vital installations so that movement of anti-social and unwanted elements could be checked. Gupta further said that budget pending for modernisation of the force should be utilised in time and that the cops must be equipped with latest weapons and other gadgets so that they should be ready to face any untoward situation. Besides Gupta, the meeting was attended by principal secretary (Home), Dewasheesh Panda, ADG (Crime), HC Awasthi, ADG (law and order), Mukul Goel, all zonal IGs, ADG (traffic), Anil Agarwal, ADG (Technical Services) RK Vishwakarma, ADG (Karmik), Bhawesh Kumar Singh etc.