Perform or face transfer, says CM at first meeting with SSPs

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 21

Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Thursday asked the police force to ensure effective, efficient and transparent policing across the state to instil confidence of people in the law and order machinery.

Four ias officers shifted

• Jalandhar has got a new divisional commissioner in VK Meena as Gurpreet Kaur Sapra was relieved of the additional charge in the transfer orders for 4 IAS officers issued on Thursday
• Amit Talwar, who was recently posted as Managing Director, PRTC, has been replaced by Parneet Shergil
• Uma Shankar Gupta has been relieved from the CMO as Additional Principal Secretary and given the additional charge of Science and Technology Department

Prioritising the challenges being faced by the state, Channi asked the entire police force, right from top brass to the bottom, to work in unison to eradicate corruption, break the drug supply chain, illicit liquor trade and the sand mafia with a heavy hand. The Chief Minister categorically said the police should develop a system to identify the peddlers/smugglers who were supplying drugs to our youth.

Chairing the first meeting of SSPs after assuming the charge as Chief Minister here at the CMO, Channi asked the officers to discharge their duties with utmost dedication, honesty and professional commitment so that people feel the difference and a message to this effect must go down the line. The Chief Minister asked the police officers, especially the SSPs, to either perform or be ready to be replaced for their inefficiency as an efficient, clean and transparent administration were the hallmark of his government’s agenda.

Showing grave concern over the adulteration of food products like milk, cheese and other dairy products, the Chief Minister asked the police department to launch a vigorous campaign in tandem with the Health Department to crack down on unscrupulous elements who were playing havoc with the health of people. He also asked the ACS (Home) to rope in the Vigilance teams to trap these adulterators indulging in such inhuman practices.

The Chief Minister also asked the SSPs to issue detailed directions to all DSPs and SHOs to ensure that small shopkeepers, especially the vendors, should not be fleeced by taking money from them in lieu of allowing them to put up stalls for selling crackers and other items during Diwali. Earlier, Deputy Chief Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa said the police force was quite competent with enormous capacities and capabilities to face any challenge. He said, “If our police force could valiantly contain the decade-long militancy in the state, I am confident they will set an example to wipe out the drug menace besides other mafia.”