Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke of a ‘SMART’ police, an acronym for 'Strict and sensitive, Modern and mobile, Alert and accountable, Reliable and responsible and Techno-savvy and trained’.
But SMART police remains only on paper and has been reduced to a ‘jumla’, said KC Ramamurthy, Congress member in the Rajya Sabha.
CPM Member, Jharna Das Vaidya, referred to the Bureau of Police Research & Development (BPR&D) report to point out that Manipur has 43 police stations without phones or wireless sets, the maximum for any state while Chhattisgarh has 161 police stations without vehicles. Madhya Pradesh has 111 police stations without any telephone line. The BPR&D comes under the Home Ministry.
Ramamurthy lamented that the President’s address or the budget had made virtually no reference to policing, despite warning signs that internal security is in a precarious state.
Voicing their concern over the state of police stations in the country, the Members pointed out that BPR&D figures revealed there were only 10.13 vehicles for 100 policemen at the national level.
The other points raised in the House were:
Published: 09 Feb 2017, 5:52 PM IST
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Published: 09 Feb 2017, 5:52 PM IST