Centre to make provisions for modernisation of police: Officer

Special provisions will be made by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) for the modernisation of the state police force, a senior officer said here today.

The announcement was made by Joint Secretary (MHA) Vivek Bhardwaj at the 4th Regional Workshop organised by the home ministry for effective implementation of the Umbrella Scheme for assistance to states to modernise their police forces at the police headquarters here.

Special provisions for internal security, law and order, women security, availability of modern weapons, mobility of police forces, logistics support, upgradation of police wireless, the National Satellite Network, the CCTNS project and the e-prison project would be made under the scheme, a spokesman said.

Further, the scheme would help maintain law and order, women and child security, the CCTNS project, mobility, infrastructure, FSL and telecommunication systems in Haryana, he added.

Representatives of Jammu and Kashmir, Uttrakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Tripura, Manipur and Rajasthan along with the Ordnance Factory Board, Kolkata, the Directorate of Coordination Police Wireless, Delhi, attended the workshop, the spokesman said.

The Union Ministry of Home Affairs has released Rs 149.27 crore from the year 2009-10 to 2016-17 to strengthen Haryana Police, he added.