AMRITSAR: The Director General of Punjab Police, Mr, 0.P, Sharma, March 2nd said that Pakistan was trying to revive militancy in Punjab and other parts of India.

While addressing a press conference here, Mr. Sharma said that Pakistan’s intelligence agency IST had changed its tactics of operation. He said that now the Pakistan nationals were being trained to create trouble in Indian Territory. He said that recently certain Pakistani nationals had been apprehended in Delhi and on international border, which were sent here to revive militancy.

Ho said that Punjab police was fully prepared to counter the fresh attempts of Pakistan for fueling subversive activities. ‘The DGP said that he had a priority to improve the image of police, He said that various orientation courses for police officials had been started to improve the behavior of police towards public, He said that he would assure that the grievances of public were solved without any delay. He said that a gazetted officer would visit every police station once a week to attend to public complaints.

While declaring Amritsar as a modern Police district,” he said that earlier Fatehgarh Sahib was announced as modern district, but the scheme could not materialize, He said that police officials in modern police stations would be accessible to people all the time, The working of police would be made transparent, he added, Replying to a question, Mr. Sharma said that the Punjab police was fully prepared to conduct the Lok Sabha elections. He said that if elections were held on a single day, then more held force would be required and in case of split election, Punjab police would be adequate to handle the job.

Mr. Sharma earlier addressed a meeting of prominent citizens and wok Suggestions to improve the police working. Most of the people complained about the mismanagement of traffic, Mr. Sharma said that a state level campaign had been launched to check traffic violations and illegal driving licenses issued to minors.

 

Article extracted from this publication >>  March 6, 1996