SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir’s Director General Police (DGP) RR Swain stated on Saturday that due to the 30-year history of guns in the region, it will take time to silence the last gun.
“Gun has a 30-year-long history in J&K, and it will take time to silence the last gun,” DGP Swain told reporters on the sidelines of a public darbar held at Police Headquarters in Srinagar.
The DGP mentioned that policing is a challenging job, and the police are incomplete without public support. “We have to ensure that the genuine party gets justice, and for that, we have to listen to both parties carefully while carrying out the investigations,” he said, adding, “It is not like that after proving the theft case, we would let the thief go.”
He said while treading the tough path, police are fast emerging as the most professional force in J&K. “Even though mistakes do happen. In our journey of policing, we keep on rectifying the mistakes,” the DGP said.
Regarding stone pelting in Kashmir, the J&K police chief mentioned that it has come to zero. “The High Court has stated that stone pelting is an act of terrorism. Here, stone pelting was never connected or linked with sadak, pani, bijli, and in fact, it created a law and order situation on roads,” he said. “Today, no civilian injuries or deaths and for that matter no security forces personnel got injured or killed in stone pelting in Kashmir.”
With stone pelting vanishing completely, tourism and trade are flourishing, schools and colleges functioning normally while the income of families has improved, and so have their lives.
Asked about the policy for individuals who have committed mistakes in the past, such as participating in stone pelting and are now leading peaceful lives, he said: “Doors of the police are not closed for people who have committed mistakes once or twice in the past but are living a normal life. These cases have come to the fore during the public darbar, including cases where people have been selected for government jobs but are awaiting security clearance. Passport clearance cases are also before us.”
DGP Swain mentioned that the police have adopted a two-pronged approach for such cases; to look for aggravating factors and mitigating factors. If a person has committed a mistake once and then committed it again, the police have to be harsh. Under mitigating factors, if a person has committed a mistake once and quit it forever, a different approach is adopted. “Our primary aim is to find ways and means to end violence. Factors responsible for violence have been tackled in a way that they don’t exist anymore.”
On public darbars, he said the police family is spread over a 1.40 lakh force, and cases of different natures come to the fore. “Darbars have come from a combination of internal grievance redressal systems given a huge number of family members (policemen). SRO-related cases also come to me, and then comes to cases related to common people which are also connected with police by one or the other way,” the DGP said. (KNO)
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