New DIG of police Palamu A V Homkar, who took over charge from the outgoing DIG Vipul Shukla who has been transferred to Ranchi as IG police, was on his pre poll work.
He held a near two hour meeting with three SPs Ashwani K Sinha ( Garhwa) Ajay Linda ( Palamu) and Prashant Anand ( Latehar) along with a battery of DSPs/SDPOs namely Sandeep Gupta, Surjit Kumar, Vijay Kumar and Shambhu K Singh.
Homkar has joined here as DIG Palamu just days head of the imposition of the model code of conduct by the Election Commission of India.Sources said this new man in the hot seat days ahead of poll schedule announcement is first of its kind here in this Palamu police range. Homkar has asked the SPs to act tough on organised criminals and Naxalites. Palamu has a history of organized criminals and this is to be busted said one SDPO Shambhu K Singh quoting the DIG, who was in the meeting.
Homkar is learnt to have stressed on the curbing containing and controlling the interstate border area Naxalites and their activities. If Garhwa and Latehar districts have its borders with Chhatisgarh Palamu has a vast porous border with Bihar. Sources said naxals at present in all these 3 districts are too down but not out as any aberration by them can change scenario here.