Report focuses on citizen-friendly police

Dushyant Singh Pundir

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Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 28

The single-member Police Reforms Commission has suggested a slew of measures to improve the functioning and investigation of the Police Department.

The commission, headed by former IGP KB Singh, presented the report to outgoing UT Administrator VP Singh Badnore here on Friday. Accepting the report, Badnore appreciated the sincere efforts made by the Commission in making pragmatic and meaningful recommendations to make the Chandigarh Police truly citizen-friendly.

Key suggestions

• Police should behave in a friendly manner
• Construction of five new police stations in the city
• Record room for victims coming to police stations
• Police need modern weapons
• Development of infrastructure at police stations
• Better relations between police and public
• Cameras needed at different points in the city
• Creation of a separate police station for cyber crime
• Time-to-time recruitments in Police Department
• Strengthening of police telecommunication network
• Strengthening of beat box

The Administrator expressed confidence that implementation of the recommendations made by the Commission would help make the Chandigarh Police more responsive, robust and efficient.

The major thrust of the report was on improving the functioning of the police as well as its modernisation.

According to the report, the weapons of the police are outdated. In such a situation, the policemen now need modern weapons. “There is also a need to set up five new police stations and a cyber police station in the city to curb criminal offences,” suggested the panel.

The report also seeks to improve the treatment meted out to the victims at police stations. According to the report, the victims who come to the police station do not know with whom to lodge a complaint. A separate reception should be set up in each police station to help complainants, the panel suggested. With technological innovations in crime prevention and policing, the report also recommended technical training for staff for usage of modern probing techniques.

The Commission also laid stress on computerisation of work, installation of CCTV cameras in all police stations and maintenance of records of the victims. The UT Administration had constituted the Commission for three months on September 1, 2020, on the orders of the Supreme Court.