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8 G PLUS AUG 09 - AUG 15, 2014 In The News 400 TECH ADVISORS TO AID COPS The Home Department recently announced that several technical advisors would be inducted into Assam Police to help the department to clear out pending cases and to train new recruits. RAHUL CHANDA State Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi recently approved the state Home department’s proposal to create 400 posts of Technical Advisors on contractual basis in the state police. According to police officials the posts would be created to reduce pendency of cases in all police stations to 50 per cent within a year. But will it really do so? Who will be these advisors and how will they help reduce the pendency? Slow disposal rates of cases in the city and state is a long pending issue and with this new move of recruiting technical advisors, it seems like the authorities really want to work to reduce crimes and punish the culprits, but will this new strategy help or will it turn out to be just a waste of public money? The advisors According to senior police officials the technical advisors will be retired police officers. IGP (Law and order) SN Singh said, “All the district SPs are instructed to identify and submit the details of retired police officers who have a good history of career and have solved tough cases. The advisors have to be the best of the officers who have completed all their responsibilities with honesty and sincerity.” So, the technical advisors will be retired police officers, but the question is no matter how sincere or responsible they were, with police’s history of graft, will they add up to the reputation? The contract After receiving the details and the names of the compiled retired police officers, the present police officers will decide on who will be hired and who will not. But, group-ism is something which cannot be left out from a huge department like Assam Police. According to highly placed sources in the police, each and every officer has a group of people working under him and are his or her close lieutenants. Apparently, these tentative advisors who are retired are already aware of the information that 400 technical advisers would be hired across Assam and they have already started pulling the strings. Of course, everything will depend on the names submitted by the district SPs but who is to know if the names will not have group-ism? The officers deployed in all the police stations are known to the SPs and when biasness prevails in all sectors, how can a government body like the Assam Police be able to rid of it. All the technical advisors will be hired on a contractual basis for a one year time period, and then may be the service will be extended or a new process of hiring will be carried forwards. For this year the police is planning to hire all the advisors till the end of the financial year which is March 2015. The work Again this is an analysis by the police department that the young officers deployed in various police stations in the state do not understand the place and find it difficult to solve cases. They have less experience and do not understand how to deal with the cases efficiently for which they require guidance. According to the authorities, the retired police officers who will join as technical advisors will help these young officers solve the cases in a speedy manner. As claimed by the authorities, the “ All the district SPs are instructed to identify and submit the details of retired police officers who have a good history of career and have solved tough cases” advisors would be inducted from the financial sector to deal with banking/ non-banking frauds as well as from judicial sector to tackle cybercrime cases. The advisors also will have great law and order maintenance record as they will be expected to help the young officers solve all cases relating to law and order. Interestingly, the advisors will be deployed in the police stations located near their homes as they will have to know the area well. As cops are usually known to have some understanding with the criminals, will not the advisors be helping the young officers to establish new relations with the local criminals? No matter the advisors will provide better knowledge about the area and local criminals which will help maintaining the law and order scenario, but they can also teach the tricks of the trade to enter the graft world. The perk The advisors would receive a fixed salary of `20,000 per month and `6.4 crore has been proposed for this purpose in the budget. The process of hiring is also on and according to the police officials, the job history details of all the eligible retired officers have not yet been submitted by all the district SPs, which is delaying the process. The technical advisors will be officers who have served as subinspectors and inspectors in various police stations. The move sounds ambitious and efficient but the officers, if selected without any bias and if they guide the young breed well, then there might be a hope of change, which can be expected. All in all, it is a positive move and if everything works well, the society should reap the benefits soon. rahul.chanda@g-plus.in
G PLUS AUG 09 - AUG 15, 2014 9 Politicking Daya Nath Singh ASSAM CONGRESS NEEDS DYNAMIC LEADERSHIP Assam, which has been problem-torn for several years is now passing through a critical situation in which the Congress Party-led state government seems to have turned a deaf ear and blind eye, despite the efforts of the local people, NGOs and media covering the news from each and every corner of the state. The party in power for the last thirteen years is now divided among several factions contesting to gain maximum benefit out of the prevailing situation. The entire state has witnessed serious violence like murder, theft, communal hatred, abduction, abuse against womenfolk and aged persons, but the administration remains in a standstill. Criminals are active and enjoy the patronage of some influential leaders. Under such circumstances, the people of the state want to bring in a ‘dynamic leader’ to tackle the situation and ensure peace in the state. The dilly-dallying of the state government by transferring certain police officials and constables from one place to another cannot improve the situation. The chief minister of the state provides assurances to the people of removing their problems ‘shortly,’ which has not happened for years together. He is very fond of laying foundation stones, releasing new schemes but seldom completes any. The situation would have not have been as it is now if the Central leadership of the Congress Party had taken steps to realise and understand the situation by themselves instead of being guided by the Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi alone, who always tried to portray a one-sided picture of the situation and never allowed the Central leadership to have the opinion of other sections of the people. The failure of the Congress Party in the recent Lok Sabha polls is the result of the ignorance of the actual picture of the political situation of the state by SPLURGE URGE The entire state has witnessed serious violence like murder, theft, communal hatred, abduction, abuse against womenfolk and aged persons, but the administration remains in a standstill. the Congress high command, Sonia Gandhi, party vice president Rahul Gandhi and the former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The Central leaders of the party were kept in dark about the frustration growing among the party cadres, who decided to play the game in absence of a clear-cut guideline from their leaders. The people of state believe that the party failed to select the right candidates for the last parliamentary polls as the entire selection of the candidates were cleared by the party vice president Rahul Gandhi. The Bodoland Territorial Autonomous District (BTAD) is under the shadow of serious violence at present. Abduction of businessmen and murder of innocent people has continued and the state government is busy in transferring policemen from the places of violence and sending in new personnel, which cannot be taken as a foolproof security measure. No senior member of the state government has so far visited the affected areas to console the people who have lost their kith, kin and properties as well. Under the leadership of the CM, the people of the state feel neglected. The Barak valley people feel ignored by the party rulers and the Lower Assam people think themselves sidelined by the heavy weights of upper Assam. They feel that the situation cannot improve under present regime. THIS SPACE CAN BE YOURS AT `1000/- `1000/- Please Call 8486002303/4/5 THIS SPACE CAN BE YOURS AT THIS SPACE CAN BE YOURS AT `1000/- Please Call 8486002303/4/5 Please Call 8486002303/4/5
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