Uttar Pradesh
Police Reform Exercise in Uttar Pradesh
- 22 Apr 2022
- 1 min read
Why in News?
On April 21, 2022, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath gave many guidelines related to police reforms in a meeting.
Key Points
- In order to increase the efficiency of Uttar Pradesh ATS (Anti-Terrorist Squad), the Chief Minister has directed to prepare a proposal regarding training of its officers and jawans from agencies like US Federal Investigation Agency (FBI) and Home Land Security.
- Apart from this, the Chief Minister also gave some other instructions, the details of which are as follows-
- Formation of UP Special Police Establishment on the lines of CBI.
- To select and train the soldiers for the new Special Police Operation Team (Spot) of ATS, in the next 100 days,.
- Formation of Special Task Force unit in Ayodhya in the next 100 days.
- Some decisions have also been taken regarding gender equality in police forces, such as-
- Doubling the number of women workers.
- Construction of pink booths near religious places.
- To provide scooty to every female beat constable.
- Formation of women commando team.
