Director General of Police, OP Singh and his office seem be to busy in cosmetic policing and were in fact, making every bid to conceal even sensational crimes.
This was evident from the fact that two cases of crime against fairer sex, in which Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath reacted strongly and suspended SPs of Sambhal and Pratapgarh respectively on Monday night, failed to find place in the press note released by the DGP office. Interestingly, in other cases including some tragic incidents in which CM’s office reacted, the DGP office did not bother to mention it in press notes released for the media.
Going by press note released by the DGP ‘s Public Relation Officer, Rahul Srivastava, one would be given to understand that UP was the most peaceful state in the country without any sensational crime being committed.
Press notes in recent months have only reflected that UP Police was busy in cracking the whip against criminals and organised gangs and only contain ‘good works’ only.
Interestingly, the DGP was reportedly pulled by a senior leader for not reining in his PRO who was ‘facilitating’ transferand postings ofsenior officers. The DGP was even asked by the senior BJP leader to shoo him away from his office to keep a clean image. Sources claimed that with a spurt in sensational crimes and the pathetic failure of the DGP and his team, the latter planned to go `cosmetic policing’ to divert public attention and keep the political masters in good stead. Unlike in previous regime when DGP’s bulletin mostly mentioned sensational crimes and some outstanding good work, mattersarejustthe opposite in the present dispensation.
Sources said that people from across UP regularly visit DGP’s Grievances Cell to get problems addressed but hardly get relief.
“The PR section of DGP office is busy handling his twitter account and improve its image at least on social media. Not only this, unlike in previous regimes, the present police press notes mostly have some or the other circular of DGP on various crime control issues to givethe impression that the top cop was very active but whether these were followed remain a closely guarded secret.