Principal secretary (home), Deepak Singhal, gave a clear message of perform or perish to the police officers.
``The officers and cops must develop a dialogue with the public and they should reach to all sensational crime spot to initiate immediate necessary action against the culprits”, called on Deepak Singh, while issuing warning that those who would not take heinous crimes seriously, would be held responsible and punished. Singhal, who assumed the charge of PS (Home) was talking to media persons here on Wednesday evening.
Singhal said that the officers should not sit just in their offices but must also felt their presence in the field as it would sent a strong message of their alertness and help keeping crimes under check. He stressed an urgent need of strengthening the intelligence network in the state, and claimed that many incidents could be averted if time actionable inputs would be shared between the officers.
He called the policemen to be sensitive towards the public and must listen to each and every problems and tried their best to give immediate relief to the victims. Singhal also directed that to attend the problems of members of fairer sex as well as old persons on priority basis. He also informed the media persons that he along with Director General of Police, Al Banerjee, would visit Meerut and Moradabad to take first hand account of ground realities in the two communally sensitive districts of Western UP, on Thursday.
It may be mentioned that state government posted Deepak Singhal as PS (Home), after removing AK Gupta. Gupta was reportedly shunted out as he failed to put a check on deteriorating law and order situation. Gupta, was still awaiting posting