Southern States - Karnataka   

DGP wants range-level IGP post to stay

By Our Special Correspondent

GULBARGA June 25. The Director-General of Police, T.Madiyal, said here today that the Home Department had requested the Government not to abolish the post of Inspector-General of Police at the range level as recommended by the Administrative Reforms Commission (ARC).

Addressing presspersons after a three-hour review of the law and order situation in the North-Eastern Range with senior officials, Mr. Madiyal said the Government had been told that the office of the Inspector-General of Police at the range level had a different role to play, and it could not be equated with divisional offices of other departments.

He said that even in States such as Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan, where there were no divisional-level offices of other departments, there were range-level offices of the Police Department. On the reported decision of the Cabinet sub-committee accepting the recommendations of the ARC to abolish the range-level IG offices, Mr. Madiyal said he was not aware of it.

The DGP said direct recruitment for a few posts in the Corps of Detectives (CoD) had started, and so far 12 SIs directly attached to the CoD had been recruited, provided training, and posted to the department. They would work in tandem with officers posted to the CoD on deputation.

Answering another question, Mr. Madiyal said the police were keeping a tab on the movement of anti-social and anti-national elements from other States, and the arrest of a few anti-social elements having connections with the underworld in Bangalore and Mangalore highlighted the effectiveness of the State police.

As part of the plan to keep a tab on newcomers, one round of door-to-door survey in Bangalore City had been completed. Mr. Madiyal said that all district police headquarters would be brought under the network of the Automated Fingerprint Search System, which had been introduced in Bangalore on a pilot basis. The computer hardware provided at all police stations in the State would be brought under the Crime Criminal Information System (CCIS) after the software for it was developed.

On the hunt for the forest brigand, Veerappan, the DGP said the operations were going on as planned. He said that those arrested in connection with the murder of the Raichur District BSP President, Khaleel Khan, had connections with the underworld, and the investigating officers had been asked to probe further the previous activities of those arrested.

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Southern States

News: Front Page | National | Southern States | Other States | International | Opinion | Business | Sport | Miscellaneous |
Advts: Classifieds | Employment | Obituary |

Stories in this Section

• Governor for financial powers for SECs
• Krishna spikes speculation on early poll
• Rain helps Hassan farmers start sowing
• No plan to proscribe PWG, says Madiyal
• Centre urged to take action against A.P. Govt.
• CPI(M) stages dharna in Bellary
• `Transport corpns. looking at profitability, better service'
• DGP wants range-level IGP post to stay
• Netaji statue unveiled
• Rs.50 lakh for Chikmagalur Jail
• Deferment of CWC meet, a tactical victory for State

Copyright © 2003, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu