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Commissionerate system fails to take off, thanks to NC 5/11/2016 11:46:36 PM Sumit Sharma Early Times Report Jammu, May 11: The Commissionerate system in Jammu and Kashmir is yet to take off even after lapse of six years of its submission to the Government and Home Department. If sources are to be believed, the Jammu and Kashmir Police department had submitted a proposal to the NC-led coalition Government for introducing Commissionerate system in two capital cities of Jammu and Srinagar. The effort in this connection was made by former DGP Jammu and Kashmir Police Kuldeep Khoda to make policing more effective in urban areas of the State. However, it was failure on the part of then Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and the proposal was thrown in cold bag. Sources further said that now the department has pined hope on the Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti for its implementation. According to the Model Police Act, for declaring a city as a police Commissionerate, the city must have a population of over 10 lakh and the two districts of Jammu and Kashmir namely Srinagar and Jammu fulfils the criteria declaring it a Police Commissionerate. Sources further said that, the Commissionerate system was thrown in cold storage because of red-tapism, political interference and lobbying by a section of IAS officers in the State. Once the Commissionerate system is introduced, the city police Commissioners will get magisterial powers to take quick decisions on using force and opening fire to deal with law and order breakdowns, which are now vested with district collectors and revenue divisional officers. More responsibility vested with the Specialist (IPS) instead of the Generalist (IAS). A Commissioner of Police is directly and totally accountable to the Executive for his performance. The buck stops with him. He cannot shift the blame to a District Magistrate, as some district police chiefs do under trying circumstances, sources maintained.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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