Focus on police modernisation to meet new challenges: Amit Shah

New Delhi, Oct 21 : Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said the Central government has begun a police modernisation programme to prepare the police and paramilitary forces to effectively deal with challenges like border security, terrorism and cyber crime.
The Minister said “we want to add technology” despite the outstanding performance of the Border Security Force and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police in guarding India’s borders with Pakistan, Bangladesh and China.
Shah made the remarks while speaking on the occasion of Police Commemoration Day at the National Police Memorial in Chanakyapuri area in the national capital. The day is observed to pay homage to 10 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel who were killed in an ambush by Chinese soldiers in 1959 in Ladakh’s Hot Spring area.
“The work of police is witnessing new challenges and new dimensions in the areas of terrorism, fake currency, narcotics control, cyber crime, arms smuggling, human trafficking. It is a challenge to prepare the police forces for the new dimensions that have emerged in the last 2-3 decades,” Shah said.
“We have prepared a comprehensive modernisation programme for the police and I am hopeful that in the coming days the Modi government will prepare them to meet these challenges,” he said.
Shah said the government is bringing in new technology to make the country’s borders “impregnable” and detailed preparations are being made for this.