Appealing people to ensure installation of close circuit TVs (CCTV) in front of their shops and establishments, Jharkhand Police claimed that year 2016 is likely to be proved to be a turning point in the field of electronic surveillance.
Talking to media persons at Suchna Bhavan, DGP DK Pandey said that CCTVs should be installed in buildings as a campaign in the State. “Installation of CCTV should be taken as a priority in all buildings, petrol pumps, hospitals, banks, multiplexes and ATMs etc under community security plan so that it could also cover the building located in front of it,” said the DGP.
According to the DGP, the government intends to cover five other districts—Jamshedpur, Dhanbad, Bokaro, Ramgarh and Hazaribagh along with Deoghar with electronic surveillance. “If everything goes well, 2016 will prove to be a turning point in the field of electronic surveillance,” the DGP said.
Earlier, counting on the achievements made by the department of Home, Prisons and Disaster Management, Home Secretary NN Pandey said that some remarkable results have come out of the anti-Naxal operations being conducted in the State.
“In more than 430 special drives conducted by the security forces, as many as 08 arms looted from the police, 5 regular arms, 99 country made arms, 1721 detonators, 95 landmines, 21,015 kg of explosives were recovered from various parts of the State,” said Pandey. Except one in Palamu where seven jawans were killed, no Naxal incident has taken place so far in the State, he added.
He further added that in order to ensure security along with development to the people living in the remote areas, several developmental projects are being conducted in 13 focus areas of the State like Banalat, Pesrar, Saryu, Manatu along with Parasnath and Jhumra after establishing more than 10 camps in those areas. Several developmental works like construction of roads, culverts, PHCs and schools etc are being carried out under the scheme, he added.
“Special attention is being provided to Parasnath so that it could be developed as an international tourist hub,” said Pandey. Referring to the developments made in the field of prisons, the Home Secretary said that the capacity of inmates in various prisons in the State has remarkably improved from 5,888 in 2000 to 15,320 in 2016.
“We have succeeded in overcoming the problem of over-crowding as out of a total capacity of 15,320 inmates, presently there are 17,576 inmates confined to various jails in the State,” he added. Presently there are 28 prisons in Jharkhand, out of which five are Central Jails, 17 Regional Jails, 5 Sub-Jails and an Open Jail at Hazaribagh, said Pandey.
Pandey also claimed that a total of 1960 applications for lodging FIRs online have been received so far from different districts of the State, out of which 1543 applications have been disposed of while 417 are still pending. Till date as many as 72 police stations have been connected directly with online FIR system, he said.