Punjab Director General of Police (DGP) Dinkar Gupta on Friday asked the field officers to be more proactive in view of the latest internal security inputs received by the Department.
Gupta, reviewing the State’s law and order with all Senior Superintendents of Police (SSPs) and senior police officers of the State in Phillaur, also reviewed the performance of districts on parameters like action against terrorism, organized crime, drive against drugs, untraced murders, rapes and POSCO cases.
The meeting also deliberated upon issues like strengthening of security of threatened persons and places in the wake of latest internal security inputs besides targeting focus areas in police working, including police station records, police data bases and crime records, screening of police officers, disposal of seized drugs and liquor and case property vehicles.
The State police chief emphasized the need for alertness in the State in the wake of latest inputs about the internal security scenario and issued directions for strengthening the security arrangements of threatened persons and places.
The DGP directed the Commissioners of Police and SSPs to plan daily and lead from the front in the implementation of preventive and offensive measures by being out in the field personally, visiting police stations and sensitive locations.
He directed that all Gazetted Officers should be assigned specific duties and SHOs need to be out at dawn and dusk. A review of crime, including heinous crime, cases pending investigation and important or sensational unsolved cases was conducted by the DGP.
The DGP, addressing the field officers stressed upon improving the basic policing in the State by intelligent planning of deployment, night checking of duties, crime mapping to identify “Hotspots”, giving more responsibility to probationary Sub-Inspectors, eradicating corruption in the police working, conducting screening of police officers for weeding out as per government instructions, appointing nodal DSPs for Security, Jail Liaison, Crime against Women, and CCTNS, computerized and searchable Police Station Records and setting-up Police Intranet (Internal Communication System).
He directed a small team of SSPs (Amritsar Rural, Fazilka, Sangrur) to devise and share a computerized proforma for entering the details of Police Station activities in a seamless manner which can be updated at the field level and reviewed by senior officers.
Action taken against drugs was reviewed with discussions on recovery of drugs, commercial quantity cases registered and persons arrested, property forfeited, and the backward-forward linkages found. He also directed all SSPs and CPs to give complete attention to turn Punjab into a drug free State.
‘ONE POLICE OFFICER FOR ONE VILLAGE’ SCHEME TO BE LAUNCHED
After extensive deliberations with IG Ranges, Commissioners of Police and SSPs at the brainstorming session, the Police Department has decided to earmark a designated Police Officer, in the rank of Assistant Sub-Inspector, Head Constable, or Constable, for each of the 12,700 villages of the State. The designated police officer would provide a ready Point of Contact (PPOC) for the people living in the villages of the State.
The DGP said that the names and phone numbers of the Police Officers would be shared with the people by displaying them on the Punjab Police website. The Village Police Officer would visit the village once every week to understand the issues and concerns of the community. They would emerge as a friendly village cop and help to build and populate a digital village information system, the DGP added.
WOMEN HELP DESKS TO BE SET UP IN ALL DISTRICTS
It was also decided to set up Women Helpdesks, which will be manned by women officer, in all districts.