Alok Mohan IPS
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Alok
Mohan, Additional Director-General of Police (Law and Order), said on Monday
that the police would take more intensified action not in favor of sand mafia
in Udupi district.
Addressing
presspersons after holding a evaluation meeting of police officers at the
District Police Office here, Mr. Mohan said that the police had taken a serious
note of the physical attack and attempt to murder Deputy Commissioner Priyanka
Mary Francis, Assistant Commissioner Shilpa Nag and Village Accountant
Kantharaj, when they conducted a raid on a sand removal site at Kandlur near
Kundapur.
The police
had arrested seven people in this link. As soon as Superintendent of Police
K.T. Balakrishna received the details about the occurrence, he dispatched a
team of policemen to the area.
To a query,
he said that though Ms. Francis could have taken the police with her, she
decided to do a spot visit herself as a good Deputy Commissioner and District
Magistrate would.
Normally
people in Udupi and Dakshina Kannada districts appreciated officials. Hence,
there were no issues in Halnadu village, where Ms. Francis had raided a sandextraction site. But it was in Kandlur that the incident of attempt of murder
took place. The police had taken this matter critically, he said.
As regards
other policing measures, it had been decided to improve the beat system by
making the head constables and police constables in charge of designated areas
in the district.
Hence, the
number of beats in any police station would be equal to the number of head and
police constables it had. This would help the constables develop close relation
with the people and improve community policing.
Henceforth,
the police would book those concerned in gambling and illegal sand extraction
under the Goonda Act.
Drop boxes
would be kept in schools and colleges so that students could lodge their
complaints without writing their names.
Police
officers had been instructed to go to schools and colleges and interact with
students so that they kept away from drugs, Mr. Mohan said.
Mr.
Balakrishna (Superintendent of Police) and N. Vishnuvardhana, Additional
Superintendent of Police, were present.
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