Expansion of Central Police Forces indicative of inadequacies in State Police: Chidambaram

Expansion of Central Police Forces indicative of inadequacies in State Police: Chidambaram

The Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has said that massive expansion of Central Para-Military Forces is indicative of inadequacies of State Police at a meeting of the Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Home Affairs on Monday.
The Home Minister apprised the august gathering that the strength of Central Para-Military Forces is above 8 lakhs. Pointing out that a large number of vacancies exist in state police at lower as well as higher levels, Chidambaram said that the police-population ratio in the country is much lower than the desired level of 220 and there is also wide variation among the States.
He also drew the attention to other problems like outdated equipment and lack of training. He said that inadequacies of police in the States and their over-dependence on the Central Para- Military Forces are not a good sign for the federal structure.

The Union Home Minister informed the meeting that four projects submitted by the Micro Missions, set up under the National Police Mission have been approved for implementation throughout the country. These are :- (1) Community Counselling Centres, which will aim at facilitating an integrated approach towards resolution of conflicts, affecting women, children and other vulnerable sections of the society; (2) Soft Skill Training Module for police personnel for improving the attitude and behavior of police personnel to make them citizen-friendly and service- oriented; (3) Transparent Recruitment Process for ensuring fair, impartial, transparent, objective, tamper-proof, scientific and merit-based recruitment process and (4) Dial 100, which aims at providing prompt and effective incident response management system.

The members who attended the meeting included K Malaisamy, K Keshava Rao, Mahmood A Madani, Raj Mohinder Singh Majitha, Rishang Keishing and Mohd. Ali Khan from the Rajya Sabha and Thokchom Meinya, Monazir Hassan, Rattan Singh Ajnala and Khagen Das, S Alagiri, D B Chandre Gowda, Yogi Adityanath, Kalyan Banerjee, M Venugopala Reddy, J P Aggarwal, Sheesh Ram Ola, Ismail Hussain and Mahabal Mishra from the Lok Sabha. Ministers of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs, Mullappally Ramachandran and Ajay Maken, Union Home Secretary, Secretary Border Management and Director General of Bureau of Police Research & Development were also among those present at the meeting.
Courtesy: Ministry of Home Affairs release on 27 Oct 09