Much to the cheer of the police personnel, State Government on Thursday announced that cops who were on field duty will be given a day’s leave in a month on rotation basis.
While inaugurating three new police stations in the city at Kanadia road, Azad Nagar and Tejaji Nagar here, State Home Minister Uma Shankar Gupta said that with this new police stations, scarcity of police personnel in the State would be overcome. The Minister said to fulfill the scarcity of police jawans, the Government over the past nine years, has appointed 30,000 police jawans in the police department, while 8,000 posts have been fulfilled through promotions.
Gupta said to accommodate families of the police jawans, the Government has also decided to construct 4,000 residential buildings in the State every year and also announced the Government will bear all the expenses on treatment of police jawans and their family members up to Rs 8 lakh. Talking about the rising crimes in the State, the Minister said it was mainly due to decline of moral values in the society and expressed that to curb this crimes inculcating a moral value among the people was a must.
Gupta said the State Government on its parts has taken several steps to curb crimes and it was because of its efforts that there has been 30 per cent decline in crimes against SC and ST people in the State. The Government in the past nine years has almost demolished the network of SIMI in the State and curbed Naxal incidents to a large extent, he claimed.
later, the Minister also held a review meeting with top police officers at the Police Training College. During the meeting Gupta advised police officers to improve its image by helping the poor and take tough stance against the criminals. There are few people who continued indulging in illegal activities and if the police take action against these people, it will make 95 per cent people of the society happier, the Minister said.