Will Ensure Good Working Conditions For Police

Vowing to undertake time-bound measures to ensure good working conditions to over-worked police personnel, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday said police forces are severely understaffed where only 144 personnel are available for a population of one lakh when the ideal strength is 222.

Addressing the Police Commemoration Day, Shah said the fruits of development can reach the last mile only when law and order are stable and police have an incredibly important role in ensuring that it does. October 21 is observed as Police Commemoration Day to pay homage to 10 CRPF personnel killed in an ambush by Chinese troops in 1959 in Ladakh’s “snow-laden, inaccessible, inhospitable terrain” Hot Spring area. A patrol party of twenty personnel of CRPF and Intelligence Bureau had gone to search for a missing reconnaissance party when it was ambushed by PLA (Chinese Army).