Morung Express News
Dimapur | November 14
Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio has asked Nagaland Police to speed up investigations into cases of arms and ammunition thefts from police armoury, which hit headlines earlier this year.
The chief minister disclosed that the state government has received letters from the Union Home Ministry that it would send in the CBI if there was any further delay in the investigations. Rio said arms and ammunition thefts involving police personnel was a “worrying development” assume a very “serious threat” to the “functioning and integrity” of the state police force. He said such incidents of loss and theft of arms and ammunitions has brought “shame and disrepute and is a blot to the force.”
Rio said the investigations should be completed expeditiously to book the guilty and punish them and to bring back the good name and image of the state police force.
The chief minister said “misdemeanour and wrong doings” by some police personnel should not erase the kudos and laurels earned by Nagaland Police personnel while discharging their duties within and outside the state.
Earlier, Rio in his opening address at the Nagaland Police Service Association (NPSA) said that the state police have served the state and the people efficiently during the most difficult years of insurgency, and that many of its members made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty.
“When we see today the accolades and recognition our state police is receiving in assignments outside the state, we are convinced that our officers are second to none”, the chief minister said.
