Improving policing: CM Pinarayi Vijayan meets ex-CSs, DGP Loknath Behra

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said that in order to improve policing, the process of bifurcating crime and law and order at police stations was already on. Speaking at a meeting with former chief secretaries and DGPs here on Monday, he also said that the government would be taking forward the long pending proposal for setting up police commissionerates.

Former chief secretaries and director generals of police were learnt to have suggested various measures like ensuring fixed tenures to officers and curbing local level political interventions. The Chief Minister convened the meeting as part of a series of meetings being held by himr to get suggestions for improving governance as part of the LDF government's second anniversary.

The Chief Minister said at the meeting that the government would be imparting professional training to the police officials as well as government officials to improve efficiency and curb corruption. He also said that the government's effort to ensure ease of doing business was showing results.

Former state police chief T P Senkumar, who had a successfully legal fight against the government, was also invited to the meeting. Former chief secretaries K M Abraham, Nalini Netto, Jose Cyriac, C P Nair and K Jayakumar and former state police chiefs Jacob Punnoose, Hormise Tharakan, K J Joseph and K S Balasubaramanian were among those who participated. The Chief Minister is learnt to have urged the ex-officers to maintain confidentiality of the suggestions that come up at the meeting.