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| Does JK Police have numbers for larger role? | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 2: As a part of the peace process package it is widely suggested to reduce presence of armed forces in Jammu and Kashmir and pass on the batons to local police. The Union Home Minister P Chidambram also today echoed the same view in Lok Sabha but at the same platform another Minister informed the House that the battle hardened Jammu and Kashmir Police is starkly deficient in numbers.
Chidambaram said that Centre will withdraw a significant number of security personnel from Jammu and Kashmir. The move to withdraw forces is the result of a substantial improvement in the security situation in the state, Chidambaram informed the Rajya Sabha. Gradually, the handling of law and order in the state will be handed over to the police, he added.
To hand over the responsibilities to the Jammu and Kashmir Police, the government may have to go for a massive expansion of the force as it is already deficient in numbers. During the Question Hour, the Minister of State for Home Affairs Mullappally Ramachandran told the Rajya Sabha that there were 36760 police vacancies in Jammu and Kashmir. The Minister of State said that these vacancies stood as on January 1, 2009.
This is, however, contrary to what Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and Union Home Minister P Chidambram said earlier this year. During their joint press conference here in Jammu in March this year, the Home Minister had said that there were only 6000 vacant positions in Jammu and Kashmir Police.
Stating that the State Police would be at its full strength by 2010, Chidambaram had said the issue of strengthening the State Police vis-à-vis weaponry, vehicles and housing would be addressed by the Central Government in consultation with the State Government as expeditiously as possible. “J&K Police has sanctioned strength of 79,275 including the five battalions raised recently. There are 6,000 vacancies which will be filled this calendar year,” the Home Minister had said during his March press conference, adding that steps would be initiated for identifying a secure communication network to connect 174 police stations in the State with State Police headquarters.
More than 2.5 lakh posts were lying vacant in the police forces of different states and Union territories, Rajya Sabha was informed today. According to the data as on January 1, 2008 furnished by Minister of State for Home Affairs Mullappally Ramachandran in a written reply to a question, there were about 2.67 lakh vacant posts in the police forces across the country.
A highest of 49,252 posts were lying vacant in Maharashtra, 36,760 in Jammu and Kashmir, 22, 267 in Uttar Pradesh and 22,113 in Bihar, he said.
The Minister said there were 19,268 vacant posts in Andhra Pradesh, 17,453 in Karnataka, 14,867 in Chhattisgarh, 14,448 in Tamil Nadu, 13,007 in West Bengal and 12,030 in Delhi. "As such, the responsibility to fill up the vacancies in police rest with the respective State Governments.
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