AP Police: Hyderabad Traffic Police: हैदराबाद में ट्रैफिक नियम तोड़ने वालों की अब नहीं खैर, ट्रैफिक पुलिस ले जाएगी सीधे कोर्ट..

HYDERABAD: The days of drunken drivers being let off with a simple fine are over. Beginning Friday, they will be produced in court. As part of a 'Drive/Enforcement Against Drunk Driving,' the police have decided to book the tipsy motorists under section 185 (a) of the Motor Vehicles Act and haul them up in court along with a chargesheet the next working day for prosecuting them. Turning the knife, the traffic police would seize the vehicles of the offenders to prevent them from driving in drunken condition.

Additional commissioner of police (Traffic) CV Anand, in a press release issued here on Thursday, said drunken drivers would henceforth be booked under section 185 (a) of the MV Act and produced in court. According to section 185 (a) of the MV Act, "Whoever drives or attempts to drive a motor vehicel under the influence of alcohol and if the BAC (Blood Alcohol Content) level exceeds 30 mg/100 ml of blood when checked by a breath analyser, shall be punishable for the first offence with imprisonment for a term which may extend up to six months or with fine which may extend to up Rs 2,000 or with both. For a second or subsequent offence committed within three years of the commission of previous offence, the imprisonment may extend up to two years, or a fine, which may extend up to Rs 3,000, or both''. Till now, the traffic police have been letting off motorists by collecting fine under 184 (b) of the MV Act. Recently, traffic police had entered into a partnership with the World Health Organisation to control accidents with special focus on drunken driving.

MP Police: Indore: SI Recruitment: सब-इंस्पेक्टर परीक्षा में धांधली को लेकर आरोप, कोर्ट में जा सकते हैं आवेदक..

INDORE: Candidates who appeared for the sub-inspectors entrance examination conducted by Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (MPPEB) last month have protested against technical problems and mistakes in the question papers and have threatened to move court on the issue. Alleging a scam in conduct of the examinations, the candidates said that the board's credibility was at stake. One of the aspirants, Chandra Shekhar Patel, said, "Results have disappointed me as I performed fairly well in the examination. A number of questions had wrong answer choices. Technical problems occurred in biometric machines that were installed at centres to avoid impersonation." There were nearly 50 centres in city where biometric machines were installed by the board and allegedly at every centre, the machines did not function due to technical glitches. These were the machines, which were earlier used in pre-medical and pre-PG entrance examination for which Rs 35 to Rs 40 were charged from each student. According to sources, the board spent nearly Rs 12 lakh in PMT, Rs 1.25 lakh in pre-PG exam and Rs 18 lakh in sub-inspector examinations across the state.

Another candidate, Vikram Singh Raghuvanshi, has complained of getting an interview call under female quota. Alleging that a bundle of answer sheets was lost in Bhopal, one of the students said a complaint was registered with the police. Now, students are looking to move the court in this regard. The examination, which was conducted on September 25, had questions related to general knowledge, science and languages. The results of the examination were declared on October 14. With the answers being published on the website, students started raising questions. Nearly 10 questions were found with wrong answer choices. Board spokesperson Sunil Srivastava said, "Biometric machines were used considering the sensitivity of examinations. However, at a few centres technical problems occurred in machines. Apart from this, the board has cancelled the questions that had wrong answer choices."

Maharastra Police: Nagpur: नागपुर में बढ़ेंगे पुलिसवाले, और पुलिसवालों की हो सकती है भरती..

NAGPUR: City's understaffed police force are set to get a boost. The state home department has sanctioned additional manpower for traffic wing as well as for the proposed Mankapur, Shanti Nagar and Bajaj Nagar police stations. Commissioner of police Ankush Dhanvijay confirmed the development. Recently the city police commissionerate received a communication from its Mumbai head office informing about the home department's nod for manpower for new police stations, riot control and traffic department. In all the city police would get 366 additional hands including seven police inspectors. Sources said, the home department has sanctioned 82 posts including two police inspectors, two assistant police inspectors, seven ASIs, two drivers and 25 police constables for Mankapur police station. Similarly, 93 posts have been sanctioned for Shanti Nagar police station and 79 for Bajaj Nagar.

The city's top cop, however, said they had not yet finalised location for these police stations and the search for premises was on with various government agencies and private bodies. At present, areas proposed under these stations are part of Koradi, Dhantoli, and Lakadganj police stations. The traffic department will get a big respite with 85 additional posts. Currently, traffic police have only 448 personnel out of sanctioned strength of 512. Even though city and vehicles have been growing, the number of traffic personnel failed to keep pace. "Almost 12 lakh vehicles are plying on city roads. The need for police at various points is increasing rapidly," said a senior cop. "Times like today, when there is high alert, put more stress on us. The current manpower crisis has stretched us, but we are managing well with what we have," he said. With rise in riot cases, city's police long-pending demand for a separate riot control unit was also approved by the home department. It will start with 27 posts including one PI, one API, three head constables and 15 police constables.

MP Police: Indore: इंदौर में खुलेंगे 10 नए ट्रैफिक थानें... posts for four DSPs and one ASP have been demanded..

INDORE: To avoid traffic snarls and minimise risk of road accidents, the city police has asked for 10 more traffic police stations in addition to the existing two in the city. The demand is pending before the state government. Senior Superintendent of Police A Sai Manohar said that additional 10 traffic police stations were essential to streamline the city traffic. "If the department gets nod, the two existing traffic police stations will be transformed into a control room to supervise the other traffic police stations," he added.

Eight City Superintendents of Police will have one traffic police station each under their control. There will be separate traffic police station for Mhow and rural areas, said the SSP. All these traffic police stations will work as separate units. Keeping in mind the major accidents that have taken place on the highways recently, a special traffic police station for highways would also be established, said the SSP. He said that fatalities were high on highways due to reckless and drunken driving. The highway traffic police will do research and find out special accident zones on highways. Action will be taken against drunken drivers, he informed. According to the new proposal, around 75 to 138 cops would be deployed at every traffic police station, said the SSP, adding that posts for four DSPs and one ASP have been demanded. At present, there are only two DSPs in traffic department.

Police Appointment: New SPG Chief: प्रसाद को SPG चीफ बनाने से चकित है पुलिस सेवा के अधिकारी..

HYDERABAD: The sudden appointment of 1981 batch AP cadre IPS officer Durga Prasad as the boss of the coveted Special Protection Group ( SPG) has set the cat among pigeons in the police ranks across the country.

This is largely due to the secrecy governing the appointment of the government official to a top job at the level of director general of police in the central police force, but also because the new incumbent holds the inspector general of police rank at the Centre. "Is the post of the official responsible for protecting the country's top guns including the Prime Minister is a less important job now? Is the post being downgraded?" asked senior cops. The last incumbent, 1976 batch IPS officer of West Bengal cadre A N Wanchoo laid down office over the weekend. He retired as director general though when appointed he was an additional director general. Sources aver that Durga Prasad's appointment was piloted by 1981 batch IAS officer of the AP cadre K Raju who is joint secretary of the UPA government's National Advisory Council and has access to the corridors of power. What clinched Durga Prasad's appointment was that he was once boss of the elite anti-Maoist force - the Greyhounds. However, sources said that the powers that be glossed over the fact that the official returned half way through an appointment as chief of Cobra, an elite anti-Maoist force proposed to be set up by CRPF for use in Chhattisgarh and other Maoist affected states. Usually, the Centre looks down at officials returning half way through the assignment. Before this appointment, Durga Prasad was in the doghouse being in charge of sports. The chief minister and other functionaries had no clue about the appointment being mulled in Delhi. "It is a coup of sorts more so as the cop was seen being close to Chandrababu Naidu. Though Naidu has nothing to do with the appointment, it is reminiscent of the old days when as chief minister of AP, he could get his proteges appointed to top positions at the Centre," a local analyst said. Durga Prasad's career took a hit since 2004 when the Congress came to power, precisely because he was perceived to be very close to major national opposition leader.

Police Appointment: New SPG Chief: सबसे लंबे समय तक SPG चीफ रहने वाले वांचू रिटायर्ड..

For seven years, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi have trusted him with their lives. Next week, Bharat Vir Wanchoo - the longest serving chief of the Special Protection Group (SPG) - will step down on retirement. Wanchoo has spent the last seven years of his career leading the SPG, created to protect present and former prime ministers and their families after Indira Gandhi's assassination in 1984. "He knows his job inside out," a senior police officer who has worked closely with the SPG chief said. A West Bengal cadre police officer, Wanchoo's first stint with the SPG was way back in the mid-eighties when the specialised force had just been born. Rajiv Gandhi was the prime minister then.

After completing his first stint, he has been in and out of the force on assignments to protect the Congress president. In recent months, he spent a considerable period abroad overseeing Gandhi's security when she would go for treatment. "There is no one who knows his job as well as he does," said a director general of police-rank officer posted in Delhi, who worked with Wanchoo in his younger years. This is one reason why he was quickly appointed to head the SPG in 2004 when the UPA government was voted to power in Delhi. By then, Wanchoo had already spent 10 years. In the intelligence bureau too, where he spent about four-five years, Wanchoo's job profile required him to coordinate protection of India's most threatened politicians. His colleagues insist that Wanchoo would not ask for an extension as had been widely speculated. "He is far too convinced that substantive posts should never be held by officers on extension," one of them said.

Police Appointment: AP Police: SPG: New SPG chief

Andhra Pradesh cadre IPS officer K. Durga Prasad (54) has taken over as the new Director of the elite Special Protection Group

which guards Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his immediate family members besides Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her family. Prasad, a 1981 batch IPS officer who is at present posted as Additional Director General of Police (Sports) in AP, has however no previous experience in the SPG, a force which was primarily created to guard the Prime Minister of the country and their immediate family members. Besides the Prime Minister, SPG also guards Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi and her two children -- Rahul and Priyanka. Prasad was among the two officers interviewed for the post and it is understood that the Government has cleared his name to head the 23-year-old force. Once a formal order is announced, the post of Director SPG will also be downgraded to Additional Director General's post from the Director General's post at present, sources said today. Though Prasad is only in the rank of Inspector General at the Centre, it was expected that after his selection, he would be empanelled in the rank of Additional Director General. Prasad, who had served in the state anti-Naxal force -- Greyhounds -- was handpicked for heading the Combat Battalion for Resolute Action (COBRA) in 2008 but returned to his parent cadre in less than a year on personal grounds. Wanchoo, a 1976 batch IPS officer from West Bengal cadre considered a close confidante of Gandhi family, retires tomorrow after having a distinction of serving the elite force for longest tenure as SPG Chief. His first tenure with the elite force was way back in the late 80s when the specialised force had just been set up. Rajiv Gandhi was the prime minister then. After completing his first stint, he has been in and out of the force on assignments to protect the Congress President and recently he was part of the inner team which was in charge of overseeing Gandhi's security during her treatment abroad.