The Palamu Police Association used its lung power to put forward its demand to mitigate their sufferings. A General Body Meeting of the Association was held in the Guru Tegh Bahadur Memorial Hall here in Daltonganj Sunday.
The Association meeting was presided over by its president Indrasun Chowdhury and secretary SS Dandpath. The compering was done by SI and OC Daltonganj police station Manoj Thakur.
One police official in his speech was very vitriolic when he said it is four years now and he is where he was in Palamu. He asked the office-bearers of the Police Association Palamu as to what they are doing for the officials who are ill-treated here by the superiors.One police official said the recent deployment of officers in Deoghar during Shrawani Mela was full of all hardships as there was no facility for cooking food, safe drinking water and stay there. One other spoke for speedy disposal of arrears and TA payment.
The members wanted Naxal allowances to be given besides a hike in ration money from 1,000 rupees a month to 2,000 rupees per officer. The other demand was facility treatment at par with the CPMF. One officer said, “In jungles during the operation against naxals we share shoulder with CPMF like CobRA but when it comes to facilities we are made to look skywards.”
President of the Police Association Palamau Chowdhury said forces are yet to be modernised. He said the officials are still laced with old traditional equipment.When reminded that there had come a 65 lakh rupees plus vehicle for crime detection and investigation work this president had this to say ‘I have no idea of any such multi lakh vehicle coming over here some years back’.
Police officers in Naxal hit district be taken off after every 3 years was the other discussion held on Sunday. The officers attended the meeting in civvies but remained attuned to their respective police stations for anything going wrong there in the area.