By IANS,
New Delhi : Minister of State for Home Ajay Maken Tuesday said that the security related standard operating procedures (SOP) for cities like Delhi should be a mandatory part of safety measures in building bye-laws to ensure an in-built security mechanism for places like malls.
Good work done towards this objective by one state could be replicated by others, he said during a visit to the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPRD), where he held deliberations with the senior officers.
Maken said that states needed to be allocated adequate resources to ensure effective implementation of the National Police Mission.
He suggested that police reforms in the states could be linked to funding from the centre so as to expedite the pace of reforms.
Referring to several chief ministers’ demand for extending the time-frame for police reforms, Maken said that the set of reforms could be prioritised as this would ensure better and quicker implementation.
BPRD’s Director General Prasun Mukherjee referred to the acute shortage of manpower being faced by the organisation which, he said, has been one of the major handicaps. At this, Maken directed the ministry officials at the meeting to look into the issue urgently and take necessary steps.
Appreciating the work of BPRD and the publications brought out by it on various aspects of policing and training, the minister said that these works needed to be widely disseminated among police personnel at the ground level for a significant impact.