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| Govt wants JK police to be better equipped to deal with crisis | | | Saqib Junaid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 18: As the Jammu and Kashmir police has been on the fore-front in dealing with the present crisis in the Valley, government wants to make the state police well equipped that would reduce the dependence on the army and central police forces.
The increasing number of injured people (protestors and security forces) during the clashes has put into focus in political circles whether the JK police was well-equipped and better trained to deal with the situation so that causalities would have been less in number. Now the government wants speedy implementation of the 'Modernization of Police Forces' scheme and has constituted a state level empowered committee headed by the Chief Secretary with Administrative Secretary Planning and Development and Monitoring department, Administrative Secretary Home department. Director General of Police, J&K and Administrative Secretary Finance department as its members for its proper monitoring.
The objective of the scheme is to gradually reduce the dependence of the state governments on the army and the Central police forces to control internal security and law and order situations by equipping the state police forces adequately and strengthening their training infrastructure.
The scheme has been started in various states in India including in J&K for providing cops with secure police stations, training centers, police housing (residential), equipping the police stations with the required mobility, modern weaponry, communication equipment and forensic set-up. Sources said the Union Home Ministry has released a huge funds to the state for modernizing of JK police but there has not been much difference on the ground.
A senior police official said the ongoing crisis has forced the state police to adopt new techniques to deal with the situation. "The security forces will be well equipped with the modernization programme so that they deal with the situation in a better way without much human loss. The police forces are not well equipped to deal with the situation due to which many of our security personnel got injured during clashes," the official said.
Earlier, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India has also criticized J&K government for providing "poor infrastructure and lack of basic facilities for the state police force that needs it the most in the country".
The security forces in the state are facing a tough time to deal with the prevailing situation with around 60 people having been killed and over 3000 people have been injured. While the government has put the figures of injured forces to over 3000 and said many police posts were set on fire by the protesters. |
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