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Andhra Pradesh
By Our Special Correspondent
Addressing police top brass participating in the Retreat-2002 programme at the A.P. Police Academy here on Monday, Mr. Goud did some plainspeaking about the Police department often acknowledging the delay in implementing decisions made earlier during Retreat programmes. "But despite the bureaucratic wrangles, we managed to implement many a decision,'' he pointed out. Mr. Goud, who made a power-point presentation based on his observations, laid great emphasis on adapting new technologies in crime management through the e-Cops system and on traffic management. He was somewhat forthright in his observation about the delay in implementation of the e-Cops project. ``What's the use if e-Cops is to be completed in the next 20 years. We are given mandate for only a five-year term. I want this project to be completed within two years. We can achieve this by integrating technologies speedily,'' Mr. Goud said. Referring to traffic management, he said the Government wanted to form a Road Safety Authority, but there were several impediments to it with different departments taking a different view. "Ultimately, we issued an executive order for formation of the authority and the police will have to head it and other departments would have to play a participative role in it.'' He said while there were 2,400 crime-related deaths in the last year, the figure of those killed in road accidents stood at a staggering 9,300 in the country. "I feel sad that so many lives are lost in traffic accidents. This should be the area of concentration for all of you. Independent initiatives taken by individual unit heads had shown some remarkable developments in traffic management,'' he said. The Retreat-2002 is being attended by IPS and non-IPS officers who would deliberate on different topics like improving police-public relations, improving investigation of grave crimes, controlling white-collar crime, research and development and adoption of good practices and outsourcing of non-core police functions and interface with alternate security services. The Home Minister patted officials when he recalled that the State police performance was appreciated by the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, and the Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani. He said Retreat meetings had provided a platform for discussing issues threadbare and finalising goals to be achieved. He sounded a note of caution to IPS officers when he asked them to be more practical while finalising the goals. "We are very good at theorising the issues. Our goals should be implementable and there is no point in having a goal which cannot be achieved.'' The Director-General of Police, P. Ramulu, in his address said the meeting would also review to what extent goals set in earlier Retreat meets were achieved. He pointed out that during the previous meetings, police officers developed a certain amount of expertise on the process of conducting Retreat and methods of ensuring that the department moved in a concerted and coordinated manner towards common goals instead of each officer functioning as he deemed fit.
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