Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Dec 18: Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbag Singh today visited Kupwara, Handwara and Baramulla districts of North Kashmir and reviewed the security situation in these frontier districts.
Accompanied by Deputy Inspector General of North Kashmir, Sulaiman Chowdhary, the DGP first visited Kupwara and then to Handwara and in the afternoon he visited Baramulla. The DGP chaired joint review meetings at these district headquarters.
Reviewing the security arrangements put in place by different security agencies for the 8th phase of District Development Council (DDC) and by-elections for Panchayat and Urban Local Bodies (ULB), the DGP stressed for strict and elaborate security arrangements around the polling booths for peaceful conduct of final phase of polling.
The DGP stressed upon the officers to ensure high alertness, especially in the border areas to check any infiltration attempt. The DGP said that subversive elements are attempting to create disturbance here and stressed upon the officers to reaming extra vigilant and alert.
During the meetings, the DGP sought detailed briefing from the police officers and other security agencies with regard to security and deployment of personnel in their respective jurisdictions. He directed to conduct checking to identify suspicious movement in their respective jurisdictions.
During these meetings, the DGP was apprised by the SSP Kupwara Shriram Ambarkar, SSP Baramulla Abdul Qayoom and SP Handwara Dr GV Chakravarthy and officers from other security forces about the deployment of forces and preventive measures put in place to ensure peaceful polling in all the constituencies going for polls in final phase. The officers also briefed the DGP regarding the security measures on anti-terror front.
The meetings were attended by Brigade Commander 7 Sector Brigadier MS Rathore, CO 15 RR Col Abishek, CO 21 RR Col Gagandeep Singh, CO CRPF 92 Battalion Uday Devan Shue, SP Handwara Dr GV Chakravarthy, ASP Handwara Mashkoor Ahmad, SSP Kupwara Shriram Ambarkar, CO ITBP Jaspal Singh, CO Adhoc K4 BSF, KS Salathia, CO 98 Battalion CRPF, Ashok Kumar, CO 162 Battalion CRPF, Rajinder Singh, Dy Co K2 BSF Parveen Rana, DyCO IR 4th Battalion, Bharat Bhusan, Additional SP Kupwara Ifroz Ahmad, DIG NKOR CRPF Anish Sirohi, DIG BSF Baramulla Jitender Sindhu, SSP Baramulla Abdul Qayoom, CO IR 13Th Battalion Aijaz Ahmad, CO 53 Battalion CRPF Vinnay Kumar Tiwari and DySP DAR Baramulla Irshad Ahmad.
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