Chandigarh, January 5: The Punjab Police will recruit about 4,000 men and women in the force this year.
Announcing this at a press conference here on Thursday, DGP Suresh Arora said henceforth police recruitment would be held every year.
The DGP said solving the target killings of religio-political leaders and maintaining harmony was the highlight of the past year and investigation in remaining cases, especially the Maur blast case, was close to a breakthrough. “We have made positive progress in the Maur blast case investigation,” he said.
On action against gangsters, he said the police had arrested 408 gangsters last year. He defended the police action against UK national Jagtar Singh Johal held as the main conspirator in the target killings case.
The police busted eight terrorist modules with the arrest of 47 persons and seizure of 43 weapons. Nearly 21 foreign handlers involved in providing logistical and financial support to these terrorist modules had also been identified. These modules were mainly being networked and financed by operatives based in Europe, North America and Middle East.
He said upgrade of its counter-terrorism capacity and to operationalise a crack force, Special Operation Group (SOG), were high priority this year.
Also on the anvil was the implementation of the National Emergency Response System project, with the adoption of Centralised Call Taking and Distributed Dispatch, with a single Emergency Response No 112. The entire call taking would be at a Public Safety Answering Point (P-SAP) in Mohali with 60 workstations, 12 Police Control Rooms with 900 emergency vehicles, which was expected to be operational in April 2018.
On growing threat of radicalisation on social media, the police intended to have its Facebook, Twitter and YouTube accounts to interact with the citizens. The police would continue its focus on women, with holding zonal women conferences at regular intervals.
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