GPS fitted highway patrol vehicles deployed
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, May 13 2022:
In a significant step towards preventing looting along the highway and ensuring security of travellers and people, Manipur police has deployed GPS fitted dedicated highway patrol vehicles along the Imphal-Dimapur road.
DGP P Doungel flagged off the patrol team from Senapati police station On Friday.
This is the first time in the state that highway patrol team with GPS fitted vehicles is being deployed along the highway.
At the flagging off ceremony, DGP P Doungel told media persons that five out of eight vehicles will be deployed in Senapati district and remaining three utilised in Kangpokpi district.
All the eight vehicles will be deployed between Mao in Senapati district and Gamgiphai in Kangpokpi district and each GPS fitted vehicle will cover around 10-12km stretch of the highway, he said and expressed hope of reducing looting and unwanted incidents along the highway with the deployment of highway patrol team.
People can avail service of the patrol team by making distress call to 112 or contacting mobile numbers 8798198810 (Senapati) and 9362153322 (Kangpokpi), P Doungel said, adding that the team will function 24 hours and there is possibility of reducing highway related incidents including looting when the team functions properly.
According to the DGP, state police can now extend immediate help to people at the time of road accident or mechanical failure of vehicles plying along the highway and deployment of the highway patrol team would strengthen police-public relation.
He then appealed to people to extend help and cooperate with police.
Replying to a query raised by media persons on involvement of police personnel in drug haul cases, P Doungel assured that state police will work sincerely in its efforts to uproot drugs and related items completely from the state.
He also said that state police department takes involvement of some police personnel in drug dual cases seriously and steps have been initiated to dismiss police personnel involved in drug haul cases as earlier norms of suspending such personnel proved unproductive.
The flagging off ceremony was also attended by additional DGP (Trg/L&O) Clay Khongsai, IGP (Adm) IK Muivah, IGP (Zone-III) Nishit Kumar Ujjwal, IGP (director MPTC) Pangei RK Tutusana, IGP (Trg) Mamata Wahengbam, deputy IGP (R-IV) Mangkhogin Haokip, AD MPTC AK Jhalajit, SP Kangpokpi Amrita Sinha, SP Senapati Karthik Malladi, DC Senapati Mahesh Choudhary, AD MPTC Ghanashyam Sharma, SP-NAB Meghachandra Singh and SP CMTW Chiphang Cecelia Sopemla.
In his welcome note, SP Senapati Karthik Malladi said that highways are lifeline of any country and they have to be protected, secured and the patrol team has been deployed with this aim.
He also said that the patrol team will give security to commuters especially to travellers coming from outside.
The team will also enhance the effectiveness of the district police in responding quickly, he added.
According to our Senapati district correspondent, a one-day workshop on 'Narcotic Law Enforcement' was held prior to flagging off the highway patrol team and it was organised by Manipur Police Training College, Pangei and hosted by SPs of Senapati and Kangpokpi districts at DRDA conference hall, Senapati.
Police officers from Senapati and Kangpokpi districts including personnel of 4th IRB, Taphou attended the workshop wherein SP NAB K Meghachandra Singh talked on 'Important roles and duties of DLOs, Magistrates, Forest officers and Police Officers, etc.
in the prevention and destruction of poppy cultivation in Manipur' as resource person.
Assistant director MPTC A Ghanashyam Sharma also deliberated on 'Investigation of NDPS cases, Do's & Don'ts and check list before submission of charge sheet', while SP-NCB Sureshkumar Singh delivered a lecture on 'Important aspects of Search, Seizure and Arrest in NDPS cases' and NAB investigators G Malangmei & Kimboi Vaiphei, on 'How to go about a successful ND & PS case, a case study' as resource persons during the workshop.
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