In the wake of increasing incidents of child abuse and crimes against children, to avoid any untoward incident, DIG Santosh Kumar Singh has given instructions for police verification of drivers, conductor and support staff of educational institutions compulsory.
With an aim to provide safe and secure atmosphere for school and college students DIG Bhopal Santosh Kumar Singh has given instructions for police verification of staff employed with buses operational at all schools and colleges under Bhopal range.
The process of verification has to be done by school and college management and bus operators and has been compulsory for all the schools and colleges. The school and college management and bus operators would be responsible for completing the police verification properly and should achieve 100 percent verification of the staff employed with the bus services.
According to the instructions school and colleges should take cognisance and ensure the police verification which would help in tightening the security for their students who could be in danger in the presence of person with evil.
In case if instructions are not followed and any crime is committed or involvement in crime is found by driver, bus conductor and support staff then school and college management and bus operator would also be held responsible for the negligence.
In the same context around 246 buses have been checked and documents have been verified and police verification of 20 driver, conductor and support staff has been done by traffic police in coordination with school and college bus operator association in a special drive.