Haryana Director-General of Police BS Sandhu on Tuesday said that an inter-State crime coordination meeting to formulate a strategy to check crime across borders will be held at Gurugram on May 2.
The meeting will also focus on further strengthening the policing system especially in the inter-state border areas of northern states, said Sandhu.
The meeting will be co-chaired by Directors-General of Police (DGPs) of the States of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Commissioner of Police, New Delhi.
Sandhu said that the major areas of concern to be discussed and shared with other counterparts included inter-state movement of criminals gangs, sharing of details of inter-state criminals, information regarding auto thieves and stolen vehicles, mutual cooperation in preventing human trafficking matters.
In addition to this, good practices adopted in these states to further strengthen the policing system would also be shared, said he.
The DGP said that police officers would also share intelligence to check cow smuggling, information about terrorists, mutual cooperation in arresting most wanted criminals, information about illicit weapons, online frauds and cyber crimes, traffic congestion and detection of pre-natal sex in bordering areas. Notably, in a recent annual conference of DGPs and IGPs held at Tekanpur in Madhya Pradesh, the need for better coordination among states police forces was emphasized.