Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, March 20
Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Saturday announced a first-of-its-kind initiative in the country to strengthen the state's law enforcement apparatus with dedicated district technical units along with district narcotic units, social media units, forensic units and anti-sabotage checking teams in all districts.
Announcing the move aimed at strengthening the state's law enforcement machinery to address the new challenges of policing and investigation, the Chief Minister said after stabilising the law and order situation over the past four years, his government was now focusing on augmenting law enforcement further, with more touchpoints to tackle new-age crimes like digital/cyber crimes, and enhance the safety and security of women and other vulnerable sections of society.
Apart from 3,100 domain experts to combat specialised crimes, 10,000 police officials will be recruited, of which 33 per cent will be women at the level of SI and constables, to expand the ground force and ensure more effective policing, the Chief Minister said.
With the changing nature of crime necessitating support and interventions by domain experts for the effective prevention/detection of crime, the Punjab Police would soon recruit around 3,100 specialist police officers and domain experts in the fields of law, forensics, digital forensics, information technology, data mining, cyber security, intelligence analysis, human resource management and development and road safety planning and engineering, said Capt Amarinder, who also holds the Home portfolio.
The pioneering initiative, designed to transform the police force, will make Punjab the first state in the country to induct domain experts, said the Chief Minister, as the state government geared up to scale the police department to the next level, after successfully implementing a slew of drastic measures.
Giving details of the initiatives, DGP Dinkar Gupta said the domain experts would include around 600 law graduates, 450 crime scene investigators, 1,350 IT experts with specialist qualifications and experience in law, commerce, forensics, digital forensics, data mining, data analysis, etc, for deployment as cyber detectives, financial detectives, homicide detectives, sexual assault and rape detectives, etc. In addition, the Punjab Government will also recruit around 460 qualified and trained counsellors, clinical psychologists and community and victim support officers for deployment at family counselling centres and women help desks in all districts of the state.
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