CHANDIGARH – Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal announced that a new security mechanism called the Security Board would be formed to provide security to rural people.
Sukhbir said a rapid rural police response system on the pattern of urban areas would be established. He issued directions to the Finance Department to provide resources for this purpose. ADGP (Human Resoruce) SK Sharma was made the nodal officer for this project and was instructed to finalise the proposal in consultation with state police chief Sumedh Singh Saini.
Badal said the rapid rural police response system would reduce police response time to distress calls in rural areas by providing state-of-the-art networking of GPS-fitted fully equipped and manned vehicles with district control rooms. He said the main objectives of the system included immediate and timely response of the police to any situation, especially crime, law and order, women in distress, emergency needs of senior citizens, maintaining high visibility of police force and providing comprehensive and round-the-clock security cover in rural areas by strengthening area security.
