Amid rising crime graph in the State, Chief Minister Raman Singh on Wednesday held a joint review meeting of Inspectors General of Police (IGPs) and Superintendents of Police (SPs) and asked them to provide ‘a sense of security to common people’.
He asked mainly SPs to take all possible measures to tone up security arrangements and maintain the highest standard of law and order situation. The meeting was held at the Police Headquarters in Naya Raipur.
Pointing towards SPs, Singh said at the meeting, “citizens should have confidence in the security apparatus of the State, there should be fear in the hearts of criminals and people should look up to police for their safety,’’. Though he added that Chhattisgarh Police is maintaining law and order reasonably well with Naxalites’ violence under control but still ‘there is room for improvement’.
Regarding rising complaints of being common people duped by chit fund companies, the Chief Minister said that the State had prepared a very stringent law to curb illegal chit fund companies in 2015 and it should be implemented at all cost to protect the investors.
He stressed upon smart policing and said that a 36-point guidelines had been prepared during the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with Director Generals of Police at Kutch in December last year.
Chief Minister instructed the top police officers to be ‘humane in their approach towards complainants and strict towards the criminals’. There was a detailed presentation of the Smart Policing. Stress should be laid on modernity, alertness, accountability, faith and responsibility.
Singh came down heavily on human trafficking and called upon the police officers to implement the law in letter and spirit. The Superintendent of Raipur Police gave a detailed presentation on the steps taken to curb human trafficking.
People's co-operation is also being taken in this regard. Balod Superintendent of Police gave presentation of the steps being taken to curb chit fund companies.
State Home Minister Ramsevak Paikra, Home Department Parliamentary Secretary labhchand Bafna, Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand, Director General of Police A. N. Upadhyaya, Home Department Principal Secretary B. V. R. Subrahmanyam, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Aman Kumar Singh, Secretary Subodh Kumar Singh, Public Relations Department Secretary Santosh Misra and top officers of Police department attended the meeting.