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Punjab Police to formulate five-year strategic plans

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Police would formulate five-year strategic and annual plans, as envisaged in the new Punjab Police Act, 2007, for systematic modernisation and upgrading of the present infrastructure with emphasis on identifying the department’s priorities based on inputs collected from the public at district level.

According to an official release, this was announced by Punjab’s Director-General of Police N.P.S. Aulakh while presiding over a monthly crime review meeting here on Wednesday.

Mr Aulakh said the Union Government had chalked out an ambitious plan of Rs.2,000 crore to provide financial support to the States to upgrade their police infrastructure in the next five years. This was in addition to the already existing modernisation plan of the Home Ministry, he added.

The DGP said that to ensure proper and phase-wise augmentation of the infrastructure, it was imperative to prepare a perspective plan by listing year-wise priorities of the State police. He revealed that a grant had already been received for upgrading the Police Control Room for Ludhiana district and the State police would undertake similar tasks of improvement in the infrastructure and facilities for the control rooms in other districts also.

Mr. Aulakh sought suggestions from district police chiefs for any changes in the proposed Punjab Prevention of Human Trafficking Act, 2008, which had already been put up on the State police website, “ www.punjabpolice.org”

Underlining the need to closely monitor the activities of former terrorists, those who were either out on bail or acquitted, Mr. Aulakh reminded that in the recent past the role of such elements had keen noticed in sporadic incidents of terrorism. He directed the field officers to revive the traditional “zail”(beat) system of policing by assigning specific areas to field officers to keep a watch on and report all types of activities there.

The DGP also directed the police chiefs to depute a gazetted officer for effective physical check of all gunmen attached with personalities granted security cover by the State. In case of absence or any laxity, stern action should be taken immediately, while a fortnightly report should be sent to the Additional DGP in charge of security, he said. To check the increase in crimes like dacoity and snatchings, Mr. Aulakh suggested setting of intra-district as well as inter-district coordination systems to trace out these habitual offenders who commit similar crimes in different areas.

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