Our Correspondent
Kohima | November 9
The manpower of Nagaland state police stands at 20,784 till March 2007. These figures do not include various battalions of the central police forces, the Assam Rifles and CRPF which are stationed throughout the state for maintenance of law and order. According to the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, which was presented in the state assembly in September this year, the percentage of police personnel deployed in rural areas was only 4 to 47 percent and in urban areas, it was 53 to 96 per cent. So the deployment of police personnel in rural areas was significantly low in comparison to the urban areas. “Due to improper deployment, the people of the rural areas remained out of security coverage,” the report said. The police department, which is the biggest government department in the state, is responsible for maintaining law and order, security in the state including VIP security, crime-control, protection of life and property of citizens and security on all highways. The state police are also engaged in checking and controlling drug trafficking, drug abuse and smuggling of other contraband items, illegal and unauthorized entry of outsiders to the state and checking Inner Line Permit defaulters.
