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| Shortage of staff irks Police Department | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 13: The shortage of manpower is hampering normal functioning of the Police Department. After Darbar policemen of various police stations across Jammu city hardly get time to do their official work.
Police stations across Jammu and Kashmir are short of manpower which often leads to delay in work. The two capital cities, Jammu and Srinagar are the worst affected areas where policemen for most of the time are engaged in VVIP duty. There are 25 police stations in Jammu district and 30 in Srinagar district where policemen are busy in VIP movement for most of the time.
After Darbar moved to Jammu in November first week, station house officers (SHOs) of police stations of Jammu district and their subordinates remain busy in VIP duty for full day and they are not able to sit in the office and focus on the investigative part as well.
Apart from one or two police stations, only one to two investigation officers (IOs) are maintaining both law and order as well as investigation part as VIP movement in and around the city keep them on toes. They are not able to focus on their papers in police station and complete investigation in various cases.
"The number of IOs in every police station should be increased so that the work load is distributed. The ideal situation would be that for maintaining law and order a group of policemen should be completely put in place for the work and for investigation process a different group should be there so that both can work without facing any trouble," said a senior police officer, wishing anonymity.
The police officer said that with the kind of work load policemen on ground are having, their personal, social and family life has suffered a lot. "They are not able to give time to their families and always remain glued to their police stations. During the day they are assigned the job of maintaining law and order and during night they sit in offices and open files to investigate cases," the police officer added.
He apprised that the police reforms proposal, which has been put at the back burner, was covering this aspect as well but due to some political pressure no headway has been made with this regard. |
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