MHA constitutes committee of police chiefs to bring synergy

This is considered to be the first major decision taken by Sushilkumar Shinde after taking over charge of the Home Ministry more than a month ago, giving indication that he would like to take states on-board on policy decisions.

Lack of proper discussion with states led to the strong opposition to the Home Ministry's ambitious project NCTC, which is going no where due to lack consensus.

The nine-member standing committee, headed by the Director of Intelligence Bureau, has the DGPs of Jammu and Kashmir, Assam, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu as its members. The chiefs of CRPF, BSF, CBI and Bureau of Police Research and Development are the other four members, sources said.

While Tamil Nadu is ruled by AIADMK, Jammu and Kashmir is ruled by National Conference along with coalition partner Congress. Though Maharashtra government is headed by a Congress Chief Minister, the Home Department is under its coalition partner NCP. Assam is ruled by Congress.

The committee, constituted during the recent DGPs conference, will look into any security issue arising in any state having inter-state or national ramification and ways to deal with it.

It will also look into allegations of transgression of jurisdictional limits by any state police in another state while carrying out search of criminals and try to find out ways on how to bring synergy among states in police matters.

Membership of the states would be rotational every year.