To ensure incident-free the 68th Republic Day celebrations, the Delhi Police held an inter-State co-ordination meeting to discuss policing and co-ordination among other State police forces.
“The talking point of the meeting, attended by the Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik and other senior police officers was to share terror related intelligence and inputs about various extremist outfits and their designs in view of forthcoming Republic Day celebrations. Senior officers of Delhi Police and their counterparts from Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Uttrakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh attended the meeting,” said Delhi Police Public Relations Officer Madhur Verma.
Verma said, “The officers attending the meeting shared intelligence to check crimes committed by interstate criminals and organised gangs of auto lifters operating in their respective areas. Issues of drug trafficking, human trafficking, missing children, proliferation of fake Indian currency notes (FICN), smuggling of illicit firearms etc were discussed and preventive steps emphasizing upon integrated joint checking at unmanned borders in tandem with each other were also discussed.
“The Police Commissioner laid stress on increasing police presence, intensive and co-ordinated checking at vulnerable points, tenant verification, guest house checking, paying guest accommodation and sensitization of cyber café owners, second-hand car dealers, cycle sellers, STD/ISD PCO booth owners etc, in order to strengthen the counter terrorism measures, especially during the period when the nation will be celebrating its 68th Republic Day.
Verma further said, “Traffic restrictions during Republic Day-2018 at borders were discussed and officers of other states were requested to cooperate for ensuring the same. All officers were also briefed to share advance intelligence having interstate ramifications on law and order.”