Chief Minister Raghubar Das on Thursday directed police officials to take stringent action against criminals and also to break their financial support system so that increasing crime graph could be checked in the State. Addressing officials while holding a review meeting of Home, Prisons and Disaster Management Department at Project Building in Ranchi, Das said, “Its effect must be visible in the next three months.” Jharkhand has to be made a crime-free State, he added.
The CM also directed the police to install CCTV cameras in jails and lockers of police stations. There must be a sense of police terror among the criminals, he said.
Das also stressed on the production of criminals though video-conferencing and awarding those who are doing well in the field of civil defence.
“People must be made aware about the Government aides being provided to the victims of criminal activities in the State,” he said.
Das also directed police officials to dispose of important cases immediately by monitoring it personally seeking problems and their solution from respective SPs of the districts and work intensively on them.
“Start night patrolling from December 1 across the State and ensure that patrolling vans move on the roads from 6 pm to 6 am,” said the CM.
Das also asked the officials to install GPS in those patrolling vans and ensure that the phone numbers of these patrolling vans are displayed at a certain distance in their respective areas.
“With frequent patrolling, confidence of people will get a boost resulting into an increase in movement of people on roads even in the night hours,” said the CM, adding responsibly of the concerned police station must be fixed in the day time only.
The CM also directed the officials to make dial 100 functional at any cost by January, 2017 and get it connected with the State Control Room.
“Those urban areas where there is no problem of connectivity, ensure that online FIRs are registered in police stations,” said the CM. The officials told him during the meeting of all that the FIRs in the police stations are being uploaded online and 10,000 recruitments in the state are under process.
They further told the CM that 30 camps are to be set up in the State, out of which, 12 have already been opened. Recruitment in jails has also been started where 1,300 warden, 47 Assistant Jailers, five Superintendent will be recruited, the officials added.
The meeting was also attended by Chief Secretary Rajbala Verma, Additional Chief Secretary NN Pandey, DGP DK Pandey and Principal Secretary to the CM Sanjay Kumar, along with other senior officers of Home Department.