Crackdown on drugs will continue unabated: Bommai

The State has launched a warfare towards drug menace and the seizures over the last six months exceeds the quantum of narcotics seized within the final 10 years, Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai mentioned right here on Tuesday.

He was talking on the inaugural operate of the Police Commissioner’s workplace complicated. Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa inaugurated the brand new complicated within the presence of elected representatives of the area and senior law enforcement officials.

The Home Minister mentioned the crackdown on drugs would continue unabated till the menace was rooted out.

He mentioned the crime charge within the State had declined considerably over the last one-and-a-half years of the BJP authorities however the police and the Home Department wouldn’t be complacent.

Mr. Bommai mentioned the crackdown towards drugs was additionally concomitant with the monitoring down of financial offences and cybercrime.

With the expansion in expertise, incidents of cybercrime, financial institution frauds, and different financial offences might additionally see a perceptible rise, and to sort out this devoted cells had been constituted in all of the districts, the Minister added.

With regard to recruitment and filling of vacancies, Mr. Bommai mentioned the State authorities had began the recruitment course of to fill almost 16,000 vacancies within the Police Department and it was anticipated to be accomplished in two years.

Mr. Bommai mentioned ‘Police Gruha 2020’ would come to an finish in December however the Chief Minister had already introduced within the funds that the mission could be prolonged and offered funds until 2025. This would facilitate the development and completion of 11,000 homes as quarters for the police personnel.

Police Gruha is being applied by the Karnataka State Police Housing Corporation Ltd. and the target is to offer residential quarters for police personnel. The mission receives 25% of the development value by means of grant from the State authorities whereas the remaining is borne by the company by way of institutional loans.

The Home Minister additionally paid encomiums to the police employees for his or her function within the warfare towards the COVID-19 pandemic in addition to sustaining legislation and order all of which, the Minister mentioned, helped instill a way of well-being among the many public.