The 57th Senior Police Officers’ Conference of Odisha Police will be held in Cuttack on January 10 and in Bhubaneswar on January 11.
The Superintendents of Police of all districts, Commandants of all Armed Police Battalions, Range lGs and DlGs, IPS Officers under training, senior officers of various police establishments as well as the Home Guards & Fire Services Organisation, State Vigilance, State Police House & Welfare Corporation, Prison Organisation, OHRC, OSRTC and Government Printing Press will participate in the conference.
An official release on Wednesday said the conference would be inaugurated by DGP Prakash Mishra in Cuttack on January 10 at 9.30 am.
Chief Minister Naveen Pattnaik would attend the valedictorv session of the conference in Bhubaneswar on January 11 at 12 noon.
During the conference, there would be deliberations on professional police subjects like the Maoist problem, law and order situation, crime situation, especially crimes against women, and their prevention, prompt and proper investigation and prosecution leading to conviction in courts of law, human rights-related issues and protection of weaker sections, improving response at the police station level, improvement of highway policing, coastal policing and issues relating to the Armed Police Battalions.
There would be open sessions for the district SPs to raise problem of their respective districts. A consolidated report would be complied on the actionable points that emerge during the deliberations for appropriate action by the State Police Headquarters and the Government.
The conference is an annual exercise undertaken by the State Police Headquarters to review, introspect, debate and discuss professional police subjects by the police leadership and come out with a concrete action plan and strategies to handle current and emerging challenges to policing.