Top police brass meet RWA federation on law and order

NOIDA: The RWA federation held a meeting with top police brass Sujit Pandey IG (Inspector General of Police) and Laxmi Singh DlG (Deputy Inspector General of Police), Meerut Cantonment at the Federation of Noida Residents Welfare Associations (FONRWA) office in sector 52 on Saturday.

In the meeting that was held to discuss the deteriorating law and order situation in Gautam Budh Nagar, the RWA members raised the issue of increasing crime rate in both Noida and Greater Noida, traffic mess leading to huge jams as a result of unmanned signals and lack of proper vigilance, the Khoda area in sector 61 which houses major population of floating (unverified) labour in the city, lack of police strength and equipment for the force.

"There is an immediate need for effective law and order (security) measures in the city as residents are tired of daily car-jacking, chain/mobile snatching, and general decoity incidents with no proper action from the police," said N P Singh, president FONRWA.

According to Suresh Tiwari, senior vice president FONRWA most residents felt that the fear of police was missing in the city what with the lax attitude of officials and brazen acts of continued theft by criminals.

A need for digital control room in Noida was also raised. "Presently, even though police control room has been set up, yet the same has not been provided with all the requisite digital facilities so as to monitor appropriate mapping of the necessary locations," said A N Dhawan, secretary general FONRWA.

The federation members also pointed out the urgent need to enhance the strength of police force including those equipped with adequate electronic gadgets, as the existing force and measures were extremely meagre for a large population of Noida city. "Crimes against women have been on the rise. Therefore, there's also a need for adequate force of trained women personnel," said Singh.

On this IG Sujit Pandey assured that within six months police strength will be more than doubled from current 200. "We will be increasing the police strength in the city to additional 400 in next six months' time," said Pandey. On the occasion 16 new chowkies were inaugurated by top police officials for the city.

Apart from this, measures were taken to increase police training especially in revolver shooting practice and other equipment. "We've also demanded the tightening of police presence and response to crime with a thorough check on all kabadi (trash collectors) who are the main source of thefts in the city," said Dhawan.

SSP Kiran Sivakumar raised the need for mandatory GPS system in all cars to curb car thefts. Other measures included installing CCTV cameras across all sectors and important cross sections of the city in co-ordination with Noida Authority.

Others present in the meeting included Kiran Sivakumar, senor superintendent of Police, Gautam Budh Nagar, Dinesh Yadav SP city, Gaurav Grover CO I, Anoop Kumar CO II, Amarnath Yadav inspector sector 20, Neeraj Singh SHO sector 24 and more.