Y Patton with Nagaland DGP Rupin Sharma and other senior police officers in Kohima on March 24. (Morung Photo)
Our Correspondent
Kohima | March 24
Nagaland’s Deputy Chief Minister Y Patton today called for reducing the number of personnel posted as bodyguards or for non-police duty.
“It is learnt that almost 3000 personnel of Nagaland Police are attached either as Body Guards or for non-Police duties.
There is an urgent requirement to minimize such deployments and attachments so that more manpower is available for policing and law and order works,” Patton said while speaking at the Nagaland Police senior officers and unit commandeers meeting with him at PHQ Kohima.
Patton, who is also in-charge of Home & Border Affairs Departments, told Nagaland’s DGP Rupin Sharma that all ‘unnecessary attachments’ of bodyguards with bureaucrats, technocrats, retired bureaucrats, retired technocrats, former MLAs, retired officers should be withdrawn within two months.
Stating that the new government has assumed office in Nagaland and is likely to witness the proposed elections to the Urban Local Bodies, G-20 Summit and a possible solution to the Naga political issue among other things, he said “the State, particularly the Police department has to prepare itself for dealing with any situation which may develop during or after the events which we expect to happen.”
