Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbagh Singh was on Tuesday given a detailed brief about the functioning of Crime Branch (CB) in the Jammu and Kashmir, a police spokesman said this evening.
He said DGP today visited CB Headquarters, Srinagar where he reviewed its functioning and discussed the measures to enhance its capabilities.
During the meeting the officers deliberated upon functioning of different wings of Crime Branch including CB Jammu, Kashmir, Anti Narcotic Task Force (ANTF), CCTNS, State Crime Record Bureau (SCRB), Photo Section, Finger Printing and Canine Section. The issues of these wings along with different proposals with regard to the infrastructure and staff were discussed threadbare, spokesman said.
The IGP Crime Branch, J&K, M K Sinha gave a detailed power point presentation regarding the functioning of Crime branch. He also briefed the DGP about the preliminary verifications, FIRs under investigation, cases challaned and conviction rate. The IGP also highlighted various proposals and requirements of Crime Branch to tackle the economic offences, Cyber Crime and for building capacity as well as infrastructure development of Crime Branch Jammu and Kashmir.
The performance of newly created Anti Narcotics Task force (ANTF) was reviewed. The DGP expressed his satisfaction with the performance of ANTF and urged the officers to work with greater zeal and eradicate the menace of drug trafficking.
The DGP expressed his satisfaction over the functioning of the Crime Branch and its different wings. He emphasized that Crime Branch is the premiere investigation wing of J&K Police and assured all support to make the Crime Branch more effective. He said a number of measures have been taken to strengthen this wing by providing additional manpower and resources. A few proposals with regard to infrastructure, manpower, latest equipments, computer hardware and software are under process. The DGP assured that all the issues and proposals under the purview of PHQ will be looked into favourably and those with UT government will be followed up.