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02 NOV 2023 8:39PM by PIB Guwahati
A team of thirteen journalists from Maharashtra visited the Assam Police headquarter today as part of their 3 day media tour to the state. To understand the evolving nature of policing in the state and the challenges faced in upholding law and order, the media team interacted with Shri Gyanendra Pratap Singh, DGP Assam Police.
Shri Singh highlighted that under the leadership of the Hon'ble CM of Assam, the priorities of the police department have been clearly set for the State. Apart from counter-militancy, active intervention against drug channels, arresting incidences of child marriage, supporting anti-poaching activities for the one-horned rhino, using new technologies for countering crimes, the priority is also to have a healthy and able police force.
He further said that there is 50% decline in the crime rates in the state. Assam police has taken strict action against militancy and as a result there is no case of civilian casualty or kidnapping by militants in 2023 till date, he added. He informed the media team that there is a drastic decline in poaching of wild animals in the state and during 2022 not a single case of rhino poaching was reported in the state. Shri Singh asserted that Armed Force Special Power Act (AFSPA) has been withdrawn from state except from 4 districts of Assam which shows that the law and order situation in the state improved drastically. In his address he talked about the recent initiatives of Assam Police, where strict action were taken against child marriage because of which the incidences of child marriage have gone down.
During the media interaction Shri Harmeet Singh, Spl. DGP (Admin) discussed that several initiatives have been taken by the their department to make Assam police a citizen centric service delivery system. He spoke extensively on the digital initiatives taken by Assam police and cited the example of the grievance redressal system of the department which has a grievance cell in every district police office. Shri Singh also informed that the Assam Police has also launched an app called Drugs Free Assam, the objective of which is to crowd source information from the citizens about selling, storage, shipment and usage of drugs in the state on a real time basis. Drug Free Assam app allows anybody to report any suspicious activity and person regarding drugs to the police, he added. During the interactive session the media team were briefed about the measures taken by Assam police to seizure of drugs and mass destruction of the same.
The media team were briefed about the Unified Command Structure of Assam police to fight militancy. They were informed that during past few years large scale surrenders and ceasefire agreements were done. According to the data till date 19,616 cadres joined the mainstream by disbanding their outfits.
Senior officials of the Assam police were present in the interactive session. The Journalists' fraternity from Maharashtra expressed their gratitude to the Assam Police officials for providing an insight of the law and order situation of the state.
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