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| Police ill-equipped, inadequate: Chidambaram | | | Early Times Report
RAIPUR, June 2: Home minister P Chidambaram today said India had an ill-equipped police force that made policing difficult in a country of over 1.1 billion people. "Policing a country of over 1.1 billion people is not an easy task. Policing a country in a troubled-neighbourhood makes the task more difficult. And policing a country with insufficient police stations and inadequate and an ill-equipped police force makes the task almost formidable," he said in his inaugural speech at the 40th All India Police Science Congress here. Pointing to the inadequate number of police personnel in the country, the home minister said there were 3,35,000 vacant posts. "According to figures given to the central government, the total number of sanctioned posts as on March 31, 2010, in all ranks, is about 21 lakh. Of these, about 3,35,000 posts are vacant," he added. "Thus, the police-population ratio for the whole country is about 160 per 100,000 people. This ratio is much lower than the international norms, and conceals more than it reveals," Chidambaram said.
In Bihar, he said, the ratio was as low as 75, in Uttar Pradesh it was about 115, in Andhra Pradesh it was about 125, in Orissa about 135 and in Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand - the two states most affected by left-wing extremism - the figure was 205. "The first order of business is to enhance the capacity of training institutes in the states to at least double the present capacity and recruit at least double the number of policemen and women every year," he added. He said most states barely had sufficient capacity to impart even basic training to new recruits. The three-day congress would extensively discuss several issues, though terrorism and left-wing extremism would be the prime focus.
The event, organised by Bureau of Police Research and Development, New Delhi, in association with Chhattisgarh Police, would also discuss the modernisation of police and the use of data-management in the system.
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