Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Awasthi on Wednesday directed the first Police Commissioner of Lucknow, Sujit Pandey, to work with full dedication and sincerity to fulfil the ambition of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on law and order front.
Awasthi gave this direction after Pandey made a courtesy call to him on Wednesday afternoon, soon after taking charge of his new assignment in Lucknow.
Besides control of crime and safety of members of fairer sex, Awasthi asked Pandey to improve the traffic system in the state capital to provide the much needed relief to the citizens from traffic chaos.
Awasthi also asked Pandey to identify hardened criminals and goons and take stern action in order to set an example before other officers on how to deal with criminal elements.
Meanwhile, Awasthi also reviewed the progress of chief minister’s ambitious projects, including forensic and DNA laboratories, cyber police stations, creation of special force etc.
Talking over phone to Director General of Police OP Singh on Wednesday afternoon, Awasthi asked him to entrust an ADG-rank officer to expedite the work on creating special police force.
Awasthi asked the DGP to prepare a detailed project report (DPR) of all the new announcements made by Yogi Adityanath at earliest so that budget allocations could be made to make them operational.