State director general of police Anil K Raturi while chairing a high-level meeting with State Railway security arrangement committee on Tuesday directed the officers concerned to make fool- proof security arrangements for the passengers at the Railway Stations as well as in the trains while they pass through the state’s territory. Besides, he asked the Railway Protection Force (RPF) and Government Railway Police (GRP) officers to coordinate among themselves.
DGP Raturi directed the officers concerned to randomly check the CCTV cameras installed at various places in the railway stations. Those which are dysfunctional should immediately be repaired, he stressed.
State police spokesperson Ashok Kumar who is also the additional director general of police (law and order) said that several decisions have been taken by the state police chief during the meeting. “As per the Union home ministry’s guidelines, DGP Raturi is taking meeting of the state level railway security arrangement committee once in three months. SP, GRP, RPF, NER and NR officers are attending such meetings. The police chief stressed on coordination among GRP and RPF officers regarding the security of the running trains. They have been asked to clamp down on crimes in their jurisdictional limits too,” he said.
Among others present at the meeting were Sanjay Kishore, chief security commissioner, RPF (northern railway), Deepam Seth, IG (law and order), AP Anshuman, IG (Intelligence and security), SSP (PHQ), Kewal Khurana, Roshan lal Sharma, SP GRP, AK Barnwal, commandant, RPF, Moradabad and M Raj Meena, commandant RPF, Ijjatnagar.