Newly appointed DIG of Ranchi Range Arun Kumar Singh held a meeting with SPs of five districts — Ranchi, Gumla, Simdega, Khunti and lohardga — and took stock of the crime scenario in their areas. Singh, during the meeting, also passed directions to improve the performance of police forces. “It was a general review meeting with SPs of this range to review the current crime data of their areas where they have been told to identify the criminals and naxals of their areas and conduct a drive ensuring better performance by the police,” said the DIG.
According to the DIG, since the Operation Karo – II was being conducted for a long time in several districts of Gumla, Simdega, Khunti and Chaibasa, including Ranchi, and now there is need for intelligence based operations only. “The forces are sent to the extended operational areas on the basis of the inputs of any Naxal movement otherwise they are kept inside their camps,” said Singh.
As many as 10 companies of security forces of Jharkhand Jaguar, CRPF, JAP and state police have been deployed in Khunti, Rania, Torpa, Karra and Murhu jungles adjoining the State capital Ranchi. Extensive search operations are being conducted to finish the PlFI menace from the area. Operation Karo-II was launched in the first week of January to complete the job left during Operation Karo-I, launched in July last year to flush out the People’s liberation Front of India (PlFI) rebels from Khunti and its adjoining districts of Jharkhand.
Sources in the police department also revealed that the DIG also directed the SPs to ensure that the station diaries and other police records of each police station are kept up to date stressing on personal monitoring of those records by them from time to time. The DIG told the SPs to give importance to the investigative part of the cases registered in the police stations as better investigation will automatically lead to decrease in crime graph in their areas.