The Uttar Pradesh government claimed to have achieved encouraging success on law and order and got more fruitful results than what was set as a target for the first 100 days of the present regime. In some offenses, especially in crime against women, action taken against the accused stood at an impressive 100 per cent.
Additional Chief Secretary, Home Awanish Kumar Awasthi told newspersons in Lucknow on Tuesday that he reviewed the action plan set by the government for 100 days to further improve law and order and effectively crack down on criminals.
Awasthi claimed that against the set target of punishing 1,000 accused in 100 days in crimes against women and offenses of POCSO Act, 431 in POCSO and 744 in serious crimes against women, a total 1,175 accused were punished in 60 days, which was more than 100 per cent of the target.
The target of setting up cyber helpdesks in every police station of the state has also been accomplished. Efforts were also being made to upgrade social media monitoring cells at the police headquarters and district level.
Instructions have been issued to change the name of Police Training School in Meerut to Dhansingh Gurjar Police Training School in order to set up a state-of-the-art police training centre. Fire tenders and staff have been made available at all the tehsil headquarters, fulfilling the 100 per cent target of temporary operation of fire service at tehsil headquarters. Success was also achieved in the target of reducing the response time taken by 112 police personnel to 10 minutes for providing quick assistance to common citizens in emergency situations. In 2017, this response time was 38.32 minutes.
In every police station of the state, the set target of providing cleanliness and seating arrangement and clean drinking water for the public has also been fulfilled. Along with this, 1.46 lakh trees have been planted in 1461 police stations in order to aim for planting minimum 7500 trees in the district under tree plantation campaign in all police stations. In the 100-day action plan proposed by the Home department, more than 15,000 top ten criminals were identified across the state, in order to identify top 10 criminals at police station level in all districts and take effective action against them. Directions have been given to complete 90 percent action against these police station-wise identified criminals at the earliest.
For the purpose of keeping an effective watch on law and order and crime situation of the state and for speedy action, efforts to be made in the direction of establishing the proposed Integrated Law and Order Command Center in Police Headquarters and Home Department in the 100-day action plan will also accelerate.
Instructions have been given to bring cyber awareness programmes that are being conducted continuously by zonal cyber stations in their respective police station areas in colleges, schools, coaching and other public places like railway stations, bus stations, hospitals etc. In order to achieve legal settlement of at least 25 per cent of cases pending in cyber police stations, 108 cases were disposed of against a total 504 cases pending in regional cyber police stations, which is about 84 percent of the target.
In order to get complaints coming on cyber helpline number 1930 to be disposed of on priority, a provision of about Rs.3.34 crore has been made to clear a total of 20290 complaints. Administrative buildings of all 18 zonal cyber police stations are also to be constructed. Land has been identified for these buildings in five cyber crime police stations at Noida, Lucknow, Azamgarh, Basti and Jhansi.
Efforts are also being made by the government to appoint experienced cyber experts as consultants at cyber crime headquarters. In order to prepare 100 volunteers for firefighting and life protection in each block, against 815 blocks, 83596 persons have been trained and prepared for fire fighting and life protection in 68 districts. Along with this, the goal of making the prevailing women's beat system more effective has also been accomplished.
By identifying various types of mafia like mining, liquor, animal, forest, land mafia etc., 77 per cent of the target of Rs 500 crore for confiscation under Section-14(1) of Gangsters Act has been achieved.