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| Chief Secretaries to meet on Feb 1 on Police reforms | | | New Delhi, Jan 28
A meeting of Chief Secretaries of all states will be held here on February one under the auspices of the Home Ministry in the context of the Supreme Court’s strong stand in favour of expediting police reforms and amending the Police Act of 1861.
Home Secretary V K Duggal would chair the meeting, which comes exactly a month after a meeting of State Chief Ministers, convened by Home Minister Shivraj Patil, ahead of the January 3 deadline of the apex court for compliance of its directions on radical police reforms.
The February one meeting would also be attended by Advisors of the Union Territories, whose administration comes directly under the control of the Union Home Ministry.
The meeting of the Chief Secretaries is being held in the context of the Supreme Court order of January 11 dismissing the plea of the States to review its September 22, 2006 directions on implementation of police reforms.
While dismissing the states’ plea, the court stood firm in its resolve to put in place radical police reforms and gave time till March 31 to the Centre to comply with its orders.
The apex court had granted states another three months from January 11 to set up State Security Commission, the Police Complaint Authority and have two separate wings for investigation and law and order.
Burying their political differences, Chief Ministers of all the states had put up a united front at the December 30, 2006 meeting against the Supreme Court direction to give a fixed two-year tenure for police personnel and constitute a state-level ''Security Commission''.
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