Amarinder announces initiative to strengthen law enforcement machinery in Punjab

Announcing the move, aimed at strengthening the state’s law enforcement machinery to address the new challenges of policing and investigation, the Chief Minister said after stabilising the law and order situation over the past four years, his government was now focusing on augmenting law enforcement further to tackle the new-age crimes, as Digital/Cyber Crimes, while enhancing the safety and security of women including other vulnerable sections of the society.

Apart from 3,100 domain experts to combat specialised crimes, 10k police officials will be recruited, of which 33% will be women, at the level of Sub-Inspectors and Constables, to expand the ground force and ensure more effective policing, he highlighted.

With the changing in nature of crimes necessitating support and interventions by domain experts for the effective prevention/detection of crime, the Punjab Police would soon recruit around 3,100 Specialist Police officers and domain experts in the fields of Law, Forensics, Digital Forensics, Information Technology, Data Mining, Cyber Security, Intelligence among others said Capt.  Amarinder.

The initiative, designed to transform the police force, will make Punjab the first state in the country to induct Domain Experts, he said, as the state government geared up to scale the Police department, after implementing a slew of drastic measures, in line with the government’s promise to ensure rule of law, maintain law and order in the state, secure the well-being plus safety of the common man.