Taking stock of the situation in the wake of Monday’s firing incident at Dhariwal in Gurdaspur district, Punjab Director General of Police Dinkar Gupta on Tuesday directed all the Commissioners of Police (CPs) and the Senior Superintendents of Police (SSPs) to beef up the security across Punjab.
Reviewing the security and law and order in the state, DGP held a video conference with all the Inspector General (IG) Ranges, Commissioners of Police and Senior Superintendents of Police. During the meeting, Gupta deliberated upon various security related inputs and issues, and ordered scaling up of high visibility policing, area domination operations, checking of suspicious vehicles, deployment and patrolling plans of districts, placement of PCR, Rural Rapid Police Response (RRPRS) vehicles and other patrol vehicles.
The DGP also discussed other security measures to check and monitor movement and activities of those arrested in the past for heinous crimes, especially those arrested in Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substance (NDPS) Act, Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, Arms Act cases, besides maintaining law and order during protests or demonstrations relating to CAA, NRC or NPR planned to be held in Malerkotla, Ludhiana and Mansa.
The state police chief also directed the Commissioners of Police and SSPs to execute a comprehensive manpower audit to pull out police personnel from non-essential duties and deploy them on operational duties for enhancing efficiency in the day-to-day functioning of police.
He also asked them to extract data from various Police databases, such as Crime and Criminal Tracking Networks and Systems (CCTNS), Saanjh, Punjab Artificial Intelligence System (PAIS), etc for quick and prompt prevention and detection of crime.
Meanwhile, the ADGP internal security RN.Dhoke visited Dhariwal to inspect the crime spot, where two unidentified persons had opened fire at Ashok Kumar and Honey Mahajan around 7 pm on Monday.
Dhoke was accompanied by Gurdaspur SSP Swarandeep Singh, AIG (CI) Amritsar Ketan Patil, AIG (SSOC) Sukhminder Mann.
Later Dhoke also held meetings with IGP Border and other SSPs of the border districts in Amritsar, where he reviewed the status of investigations into the attack in the Dhariwal incident as well as the ongoing CT operations.