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| Police telecommunication and transport upgraded | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Aug 11: Besides raising five additional police battalions in Jammu and Kashmir the state Government has created about 12,000 posts in the police department during the last two years.
Police sources said that these posts were being filled within next two years. The sources said that that the state needs to raise at least 20 additional police battalions in case the centre wanted paramilitary forces to be pulled out of the state.
Sources said that no doubt the security environment in the state had registered marked improvement there was need for further up-gradation of the security setup.
The state Government has requested the centre to give sanction for raising another five new police battalions because by next two years more than 1,000 policemen and about 100 officers are to retire.
Another scheme underway, besides raising the manpower, was to equip the police with highly sophisticated weapons. Police functionaries said that more than 80 per cent policemen have been provided with the assault rifles and other weapons for dealing with militants effectively.
In addition to this, the police have been provided with improved telecommunication system and transport .Police said that as a result of better IT and transport network the police mobility has improved and this was one of the reasons for success the police had achieved in eliminating over a score of dreaded militants, including half a dozen commanders belonging to Lashkar-i-Toiba.
Police said that modernization of weaponry, transport and telecommunication was being carried out under a five-year scheme involving several hundred crores of rupees. In reply to a question a senior police officer said that the union Home
Ministry continued to meet the expenses on modernisation of weapons and transport besides telecommunication system. It also has been paying for the wage bill of the new police battalions raised since 1994.
He said that even for providing police, deployed for tackling civilian strife, non-lethal weapons the home ministry has borne the expenses incurred on purchase of these non-lethal weapons.
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