Deputy inspector general (DIG), Kolhan, Saket Kumar on Saturday held a meeting of senior police officers to review city’s law and order situation in view of Eid. The senior police gave important instructions in view of peaceful festival.
Moreover, with the killings of eight people by lynching recently, the police are taking extra care to ensure proper coordination.
The DIG scanned criminal cases police station-wise, arrest of anti-social elements. He personally went to various police stations to monitor the preparedness in their respective areas.
The DIG, Kolhan said the law and order situation in the steel city is absolutely under control and if any shortcomings will be detected they will be taken care of by the senior superintendent of police Anoop T Mathew.
At the meeting, the DIG talked to the deputy superintendents of police and asked them to give an account of crime scenario in their concerned police stations area. The senior police officer also later talked to the senior superintendent of police, Anoop T Mathew and superintendent of police and gave necessary directive to ensure the ensuing festival pass off peacefully.
“A number of incidents has taken place in and across the city in the recent past, but the police have also been succeeded to nab those involved in such incidents. The overall law and order situation in the city is not as bad,” said theDIG.
The senior police officer had also discussed about the vehicular traffic system in the city with senior SP, SP (city) and DSP (traffic) and asked them to continue the helmet-checking drive rigorously so as to curb fatal mishaps involving the two-wheeler riders.
East Singhbhum deputy commissioner Amit Kumar has ordered deployment of strong force of district police accompanied by Rapid Action Force (RAF) jawans at strategic locations in communally sensitive pockets of city especially in Mango, Sakchi, Jugsalai, Shastrinagar (in Kadma), Dhatkidih (in Bistupur), Masjid Road (in Golmuri) and Bhalubhasa (in Sitaramdera). Entry of heavy vehicles to city would be prohibited from 6 am till 11 pm on Eid.
Pickets would be posted and round the clock patrolling done to maintain law and order, he said, adding peace committee meetings have been held with various communities, who have assured cooperation for peaceful observance of the festival.
SSP Anoop Mathew instructed to ensure the security of mosques, Imam Bargahs, Eidgahs, shopping centres, markets, public places, and other important installations as per the Eid contingency plan.