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Chidambaram asks states to give high priority to modernize police forces | Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Friday called upon the State Governments to give high priority to the strengthening of their police forces in budget allocation. Addressing a meeting of the consultative
committee attached to Home Ministry on "Modernization of Police Forces"
Chidambaram
lamented the fact that policing is not given the desired priority by the states
while allocating funds in their budgets. "The first duty of the Government is
to provide security to its people without which no development is possible,"
Chidambaram
said. "The Centre has been forced to substantially increase the strength of its
paramilitary forces, because the State forces could not be augmented and
modernized
to the desired level," he added. Chidambaram said police and law and order being
state subjects, it is the responsibility of the state Governments to modernize
and augment its police forces. "Under the Modernization Plan, the Centre has taken
major steps to equip its paramilitary forces with new weapons and equipment and
would continue to do so," he said. Referring to the Scheme for Modernization of
State Police Forces, Chidambaram said: "The Scheme only provides a helping hand
to the States to build better police stations and provide modern weapons and
communication
systems, etc. to their forces." "A lot more needs to be done by the States on
their own, as the requirement is huge," he added. Chidambaram also stressed the
need for the States to quickly recruit sufficient number of policemen to fill
up the existing vacancies and bring about the desired expansion of their forces. |
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