In a report tabled in Parliament on Thursday, a parliamentary panel recommended that the government advise state police and the central armed police forces (CAPF) to train people living in border areas to gather intelligence about infiltration, use of drones, and drug trafficking.
In a report entitled ‘Police – Training, Modernization, and Reform,’ a 31-member parliamentary standing committee chaired by Congress Rajya Sabha member Anand Sharma found that 257 police stations in India do not have vehicles, 638 do not have telephones, and 143 do not have wireless mobiles.
The panel also directed Home Ministry to create a central pool of anti-drone technology and allow all states and UTs to have access to it. The panel expressed its concern over the Model Police Act, 2006, that only 17 states have either enacted the law or changed their existing law.
The panel noted that the under-utilization of police modernization funds by the states must be identified and recommended that the home ministry consider constituting a committee that can visit the underperforming states and assist them in maximizing the funds allocated to them for this purpose.
