Inter-State Crime Information Secretariat to come up in Gurugram

CHANDIGARH: To curb activities of organised criminals, gangsters, prevent smuggling of illicit weapons and narcotics in NCR region especially in border areas, the inter-state crime coordination committee meeting of four states on Wednesday decided to set up “Inter-State Crime Information Secretariat” in Gurugram. This institutional mechanism will assist police of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi to effectively coordinate, create common database and real-time sharing of information to prevent and detect crime and check criminal activities.
This decision was taken in the first inter-state crime coordination committee meeting which was also addressed by Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar who said that the idea to hold this meeting was conceptualised during his informal meeting with UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath. Holding such kind of quarterly meetings would certainly pay rich dividends in checking criminal activities, he added.

The agenda for the meeting was planned by Haryana DGP Baljit Singh Sandhu in consultation with DGP UP, DGP Rajasthan and Commissioner Police, Delhi.

The meeting was attended by senior Police officers of participating states including Haryana Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Mohd Akil, ADGP, Ambala Range, RC Mishra, Uttar Pradesh ADGP (Law and Order), Anand Kumar, ADGP Crime, UP, Chandra Prakash, ADGP Jaipur Range, Rajasthan, Hemant Priyadarshy and Special CP Law and Order South Delhi, P Kamaraj and Anil Kumar Rao, IG CID Haryana.

Later on, in a joint briefing, ADGP (Law and Order Haryana) Mohd. Akil said that all the police officers have shared and deliberated upon various kinds of inter-state crimes and strategies to nab such criminals. He said that it was also decided that regular meetings between Crime branch, CIA and STF officials as well as border SHOs would also be held to ensure effective control on crime and to maintain law and order with mutual coordination. It was also decided that telephone numbers of police officials at all levels would be shared in making better coordination and to prevent and detect inter-state crime.

A lot of emphasis was laid on sharing information for containing inter-state crime and criminals in real time. This would go a long way in increasing mutual coordination amongst these states. It was decided that the next quarterly meeting will be held in Noida, he added.