The tribune, November 27, 1999
Special training for Haryana cops
From Ravi S. Singh
Tribune News Service
GURGAON, Nov 26 — The Haryana police has decided to impart special training to the force to make it more efficient in doing follow-ups to crimes and raising the standard of investigations to enhance the level of prosecutions.
This was stated today by the Inspector-General of Police (IG), Gurgaon Range, Mr Ranjiv Dalal.
The decision was taken following an informal study carried out at the level of the Director-General of Police, Haryana, Mr S.P.S. Rathore, on issues relating to the level of criminal investigations in the state.
The police chief said the need of the hour was for the force not to be "constabulary" but "officer"-oriented. The concept has been formulated in the context of making the force technology and computer-friendly, for which measures have been initiated at various quarters.
Referring to the proactive measures initiated by the police in Gurgaon Range, covering the districts of Gurgaon, Faridabad, Rewari and Mahendergarh in south Haryana, he said the village tours by the police had been reactivated. The exercise was conducted during winter. Officers of the rank of SP and above visit the villages under this exercise.
Mr Dalal, who took over the present charge recently, admitted that the districts in south Haryana had become vulnerable to crime.
The police had identified more than two dozen villages in Gurgaon district where youths had taken to crime in a big way. The police was in the process of preparing dossiers on such youths. Special note was being taken of youths and families who had connections in bordering state of Uttar Pradesh. Mr Dalal claimed that the gun culture had come into Haryana from Uttar Pradesh.
He stated that there were a number of cases which proved that petty criminals who were sent to jails as undertrials blossomed into hardened criminals. One way to remedy the situation was to expedite their trials and to punish them in proportion to their crimes. There was a dominant feeling at the higher echelons of the Haryana police that the social dimension had to be kept in mind while taking administrative decisions and in the administration of jurisprudence, he added.
He said a few days ago, the police nabbed members of a gang involved in car thefts. This gang indulged in more than 35 cases of thefts in Gurgaon, Faridabad, Rewari and Rajasthan. The police was keeping a vigil on suspicious sale and purchase of vehicles, he claimed.
The police in the range was focussing on networking the police stations with computers to anticipate crime and prevent if and to initiate follow-up action at the earliest, he added.
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