STATE TIMES NEWS
NEW DELHI: The far off police station of Billawar in Kathua district has been adjudged as the best police station in Union Territory by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), which released its annual survey recently.
Only one police station from the J&K- Billawar- had been nominated for the MHA survey.
However, no police station from Jammu and Kashmir made it to the Top 10 in the country, Kathua’s Billawar police station marked best in the Union Territory.
The MHA’s nationwide survey is conducted every year following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for Smart Policing, the idea he shared during a conference of state DGPs at Kutch in Gujarat in 2015.
Around 16,671 police stations across the country were nominated this year based on broad parameters of assessing in dealing with crime against women, property offences and crime against weaker sections. Three additional parameters, efforts put behind tracing missing persons, unidentified persons found and unidentified dead bodies were included this year. Around 75 police stations had made it to the final round. Union Home Ministry released a list of the top 10 police stations in India for the year 2020.
Billawar is a town in Kathua district of Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and also a Tehsil.
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Jammu Zone, Mukesh Singh said that it is good to see that a police station of Jammu and Kashmir is doing well and has been recognised by MHA. “We have many police stations in Jammu and Kashmir that qualify the criteria and are doing well, but it’s good that Billawar has been recognised,” said IGP, adding “we are working to improve the delivery system across the Union territory”.
He said that they are making all possible efforts to raise the standard of all police stations to make them competitive at national level.