Home Minister Reviews SSP System in Bhopal
Bhopal — Reviewing the newly-implemented Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) system in the state capital, Home Minister Uma Shankar Gupta Thursday called for greater stress to be paid to improvement of arrangements rather than making challans.
At a meeting attended by Bhopal range IG Shailendra Shrivastava, SSP Adarsh Katiyar, SPs Yogesh Choudhary and Abhay Singh and OSD to Home Minister, Dr. RC Garg, Gupta underlined the need to heighten the visibility of the traffic police in the city.
Instructing for regular checking and verification of landlords, tenants and outsiders, the Home Ministedr further stressed the need for greater interaction between the police station in-charge and employees.
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Highlights of the SSP System in Bhopal |
| Greater stress on system improvement than making challans. |
| 400 additional Home Guards to be made available. |
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Constant monitoring of tenants, outsiders. |
| Marked decrease in heinous crimes. |
Noting the significant decrease in heinous crimes and crimes against women after introduction of SSP System, the meeting was informed that the police have already cracked 86 per cent of the 707 heinous crimes committed in the district in the last 15-odd months.
It was decided to form special teams to solve the remaining 14 per cent cases.
While highlighting a marked downturn in incidents of murder, chain loot, theft, rioting, rape and vehicle lifting, the meeting was informed that the introduction of the SSP system has resulted in greater interaction between police officers and public representatives and stringent action against gambling, ‘satta’ and illicit liquor.
The new system has also resulted in a much-awaited decline in crimes against women, the meeting was told.
Expressing satisfaction over the functioning of the system, Minister Gupta attributed the success of the system to heightened synergy between police officials and instructed the IG and SSP to continue reviewing the system and forwarding the reports to him.
