The newly-appointed Home Minister Ramsevak Paikara, chaired a meeting of senior officials here at police headquarters on Thursday, while directing them to ensure that conduct of police officers with people of the State must always be cordial.
The meeting was held on Thursday in which Director General of Police Ramniwas, Additional Chief Secretary N K Aswal, Secretary (Home) A N Upadhyay, ADG (Admin) Rajiv Shrivastav and ADG (Naxal Ops) R K Vij took part. Addressing the meeting, the Home Minister lauded the State police for smooth conduct of the recently concluded Assembly poll in Chhattisgarh.
He also provided suggestions for making Chhattisgarh Police the best in the country through its professionalism besides maintaining good conduct with the general public. Paikara called upon the policemen to treat the general public with dignity and directed them to take special care while handling cases related to women and old age people especially in rural areas.
Paikara said policemen need to remain alert about new crime patterns emerging in this modern era. The Home Minister hoped that the way in which the State police had solved Naxal problem in Surguja region, it will be successful in establishing peace in other parts of state including Bastar.
Paikara, who is also the State BJP chief mentioned that a peaceful environment must be created for the general public in the State. He asked policemen to intensify action against people involved in drug deals and added that every person in the State police needs to carry out their work with integrity. Earlier the the DGP presented a report of the State Police to the Home Minister.
Further, the various Heads of departments through Power Point Presentation briefed the Minister about their respective departments. later, different Range Inspector General of Police also informed the Minister about their achievements and requirement for better policing. IG RK Dewangan, Himanshu Gupta, MS Tomar and other officials also attended the meeting.