DGP urges strong security measures for Republic Day
Srinagar, Jan 24: Director General of Police (DGP) Rashmi Ranjan Swain on Tuesday chaired a high-level joint security meeting to review the preparedness in the Kashmir Zone regarding the forthcoming Republic Day.
The meeting was held at the Police Control Room (PCR), Kashmir, in which officers from Police, Army, CRPF, BSF, SSB, CISF, and other sister agencies participated.
Threadbare discussions were held on the security of vulnerable areas, persons, and places during the meeting.
Intelligence gathering, area domination, checking at checkpoints, and security of sensitive places and venues remained the central focus of the meeting.
Addressing the meeting, the DGP directed the officers to ensure optimum security arrangements at all the venues across Kashmir by making effective use of all the available resources.
He directed ensuring the highest level of security arrangements and strengthening the security grids saying that serious attempts are being made by handlers from across the border to infiltrate terrorists into J&K.
Stressing strict monitoring and subsequent action against the terror support system, the DGP said that Pakistan and its agencies were making continuous attempts to revive terrorism in parts of J&K.
He directed the creation of special monitoring to identify every element providing any support to terrorists.
Underlining the desperation of handlers from across the border to create disruption here, the DGP emphasised the field formations to have a serious look into the inputs shared by different agencies and take all the necessary measures accordingly ensuring that subversive attempts are foiled.
He stressed revisiting the security measures in place at vulnerable places and persons.
The DGP directed further strengthening of the human intelligence system besides the effective use of modern tools in tracking down the terrorists.
He also directed to identify the technology being used by terrorists and prepare the counter strategies accordingly.
He directed the identification and smashing of new forms of terror modules with simultaneous actions within the parameters of law.
The DGP directed officers to go through a detailed review of all the threat scenarios in their respective areas.
He emphasised fixing responsibility in the line of the hierarchy of officials.
He stressed for briefing of guidelines issued in a detailed manner by the senior officers to the on-field personnel to ensure peaceful conduct of Republic Day celebrations.
The participating officers gave feedback regarding the security scenario in their respective jurisdictions besides the security measures being adopted and implemented for Republic Day.
ADGP CRPF Nalin Prabhat, ADGP L&O Vijay Kumar, GOC Kilo Force Major General Mohit Seth, GOC Victor Force Maj General Balbir Singh, IG CRPF (SOS) Srinagar Ajay Kumar Yadav, IG CRPF (KOS) Srinagar G K Verma, IG BSF Kashmir
Ashok Yadav, IGP Kashmir V K Birdi, DIG SSB Kashmir Imtiaz Ismail Parray, DIG CKR and NKR Vivek Gupta, DIG SKR Rayees Muhammad Bhat, DIG CID Altaf Ahmad Khan, DIG IRP Kashmir Abdul Qayoom, DIG Armed Kashmir Shahid Mehraj, DIG Traffic Kashmir Javaid Ahmad Koul, BGS (Ops) 15 Corps Brig Manoj Joshi, SSP Srinagar Ashish Mishra, SSP PCR Kashmir Showket Ahmad Shah, SSP Security Kashmir Sheikh Faisal Qayoom, SP SOG Srinagar Talib Iftikhar, and Second in Commandant ITBP Manohar Singh Rawat attended the meeting in person while ADGP Armed J&K S J M Gillani, AIG CISF Anoop Sinha, and all district SSPs of Kashmir Zone attended the meeting through video conferencing.
