Bhubaneswar: Inaugurating 60th Senior Police officers’ Conference, 2018 of Odisha Police on Tuesday at Police Bhawan here, Odisha’s Director General of Police (DGP) Dr. Rajendra Prasad Sharma informed that it has been decided to introduce at least one model police station in each district which will be ideal in all aspects of its functioning.
The three-day conference will culminate on March 15. More than 138 senior police officers from different establishments of state including District SPs and Commandants of Battalions have attended the conference. Satyajit Mohanty, Additional DGP and IGP Amitabh Thakur spoke on the occasion.
At the outset DGP Dr. Sharma offered deep condolences to the family members of those brave hearts who laid down their lives in the line of duty.
DGP stressed on basics of policing like law and order, police leadership, man management and crime control.
DGP appreciated the police officers for effective management of law and order, crime control, pro-active handling of LWE and successful conduct of mega festivals, sports meets and recently concluded by-election at Bijepur.
DGP called upon the young police officers to actively participate in the debates, discussions and interactive programmes in the conference. DGP called upon the senior police officers to continually strive to improve police public relations and increase public confidence in police.
He also emphasized on ethical behaviour in policing, effective use of social media, critical incident management community policing, modern policing, maximum restraint and minimum force dictum, free registration of cases in the police stations, improvement in conviction rate, charge-sheeting of cases where there is sufficient and credible evidence, personal monitoring of critical cases by SPs and Range Heads, provision of compensation to victims as per rule, maintenance of high level of professionalism and inculcation of right values.
DGP mentioned that to tackle new forms of crime in society like, cyber crime and cyber security have come to centre stage and police needs to upgrade its skills with use of new modern gadgets and technology.
He expressed the importance of use of latest technological innovations, like, introduction of e-office in State Police Headquarters as well as in the Range and District officers to make them paperless and faster movement of file on line bringing transparency and optimum use of manpower.
DGP also asked all SPs to open counseling centre to deal with all matters related to Women and Children with utmost empathy.
