Orders ignored, police chief seeks reports

Seeks compliance reports on urgent basis.

Irked over poor compliance of his directives in the past three months, Delhi police commissioner Alok Verma has sought compliance reports from senior officers on an “urgent basis.”

The police chief had issued about 40-odd directives and was unhappy over the way officers had sent their compliance reports.

Mr Verma had directed joint commissioner of police (eastern range) Satish Golcha to visit Wazirabad along with the district deputy commissioners of police to carry out inspection of a vacant land and make necessary arrangements like fixing of wires, close circuit television cameras and placement of armed guards along its boundary walls and access points of the pits. He had directed that vehicles lying outside the police stations should be shifted to the said plot within a month. But the police chief was irked as his officers had not submitted status report over the matter.

Mr Verma had also directed deputy commissioner of police M.A. Rizvi, looking after Land and Building department, to obtain details of expenditure incurred on the quarters of the Gazetted Officers during the last one year. He had directed that if funds under minor works plan had been exhausted, the district deputy commissioners of police should inform Police Headquarters well in time so that provision for additional release of money could be made in the revised estimates. It is learnt that no compliance report on the matter has been filed so far.

Mr Verma has also asked special commissioner of police Kishan Kumar, heading training department, about availability of land of pits for depositing vehicles lying unnecessarily in the police stations. “Vehicles lying outside police stations cause inconvenience to the general public and should be shifted to the pits,” the CP had issued directions following which the special commissioner of police had appraised him that out of 300 acre of land at the Delhi Police Training School in Wazirabad, 100 acre was still lying vacant and the same could be used for this purpose. The police chief had also directed his officers to review all e-initiatives taken by the force.