Law makers in the Legislative Assembly are the elected members. Their voice represents the voice of the people of this State. The report and recommendation of the House Committee on certain vital affairs of the State have to be shown due respect and not mere lip service. Four years ago the House Panel recommended that the government should open more police posts, stations and create new sub divisions in order to streamline the supervision of the affairs of the district or the sub division so that effective and efficient service is rendered. But the Home and Police departments are reported to be opposing these suggestions for reason best known to them. There are certainly very strong reasons why the recommendations of the House Panel have to be accepted and implemented. Population has grown and new settlements, colonies and habitats have come up. The jurisdiction of police districts have largely increased and it is difficult for the existing manpower to cope with the task before them. In many cases the boundaries of police districts have not been defined and confusion prevails when there is a dispute over the jurisdiction and authority is dividing. The Home Department should have defined the police districts long back but the matter is hanging fire for so many years. Additionally, owing to the militancy which has the State in its grips for last twenty-seven years, much burden of responsibility has devolved on the shoulders of the police. They cannot manage things unless new posts and stations are created. In current situation, the police have become more vulnerable to militant attacks because the police are doing a marvellous job in trying to contain militancy.
We are aware that because of rise of militancy and pressures on law and order situation, and also because of many new colonies and habitats that have come up, the rate of crime has suddenly increased to new heights. Criminal acts have to be checked and brought to an end only through the instrument of the prevailing law. This has also increased the work of the police manifold. All this put together lends much weight to the proposal of the House Panel that substantial increase in the manpower and infrastructure of police department has to be brought about. For four years in the past the Legislature has been repeatedly insisting on the Government to consider the creation of new police sub divisions and demarcation of the jurisdiction of police stations but it has fallen on flat ears. This is what we consider trivializing the authority of the Legislators which indirectly means playing with the sentiments of the people at large. This should stop and the recommendations of the House Panel should be adopted without further delay.
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