To ensure safety and security during the celebration of 73rd Independence Day in national Capital, Delhi Police Commissioner (CP), Amulya Patnaik on Tuesday held an inter-state co-ordination meeting with top brass of Delhi Police and its neighbouring States to review security arrangement in and across the city. The meeting was held in the backdrop of heightened serious security threat to the National Capital in the backdrop of Parliament passing the J&K Reorganisation Bill.
The main objective of the meeting was to share terror related intelligence and inputs about various extremist outfits and their plan to disturb peace in the prevailing situation.
The meeting was attended by senior officers of Delhi Police and their counterparts from Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir and Rajasthan.
Patnaik, laid stress on increasing police presence, intensive and co-ordinated checking at vulnerable points beside other preventive measure like tenant verification, guest house checking, sensitization of cyber café owners, second-hand car dealers etc. in order to counter terrorism.
The officers attending the meeting shared intelligence to check anti-social elements and those who had recently shifted in their respective areas.
"The verification of staff deployed on the duties related to Independence Day arrangements was emphasized. They were briefed to keep a wakeful eye on movement of paragliders, drones and other flying objects from the open areas on the day of function and share advance information about the movement of any suspicious elements," said Mandeep Singh Randhawa, the Public Relation Officer (PRO) Delhi Police.
"Traffic restrictions during Independence Day celebration and steps to check unauthorised intrusion at borders were planned and officers of other states were requested to cooperate for ensuring the implementation," said PRO.
"The meeting ended with a resolution to have increased co-ordination in policing in the NCR region with emphasis on one to one interaction at all levels in order to provide a more secure environment to citizens of Delhi and neighbouring states," he added.