Odisha: Naveen Pins Hope On Special Unit To Curb Rising Crime Against Women, Children

Bhubaneswar: Amid the rising cases of crime against women and children in the State, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday announced creating of a Special Wing in Odisha Police to look after the offences.

"I expect that with these initiatives, quality services will be provided to the women and children," Patnaik said while expressing concerns over the low conviction rate and stated that all possible steps should be taken to enhance conviction rate by factoring in modern technology into the investigation.

Addressing the 62nd Senior Police Officers’ Conference, 2020 in Bhubaneswar, Patnaik commended the overall effort of Odisha Police in handling the COVID-19 pandemic situation. A progressive and sustainable improvement has been noticed in the Left Wing Extremism situation, he said.

The CM also congratulated the State Police for organising an effective drive against Narcotic drugs throughout the State with the STF taking the lead and said, “I am told that in this drive a record quantity of narcotics has been seized. Commendable work has been done by DIG, STF and SP, Koraput.”

He further said that special drive against organised crime and extortion should be carried out with more focused efforts.

Speaking on the need to strengthen Civil Police in the State, Patnaik said that six new police stations have been made functional from today and further ‘905 additional posts in various ranks have been sanctioned for strengthening police stations by surrendering equal number of posts elsewhere’.

Besides, on road mishaps, CM Naveen said that the road accident related fatalities are very high in the State and there is need to take up preventive and enforcement initiatives as well as public awareness campaign in coordination with other stakeholders like Transport, Works Department and others to bring down such fatalities.