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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 1,211 police stations in India do not have working telephones and 260 have no vehicles, data shows -Abhishek Dey

1,211 police stations in India do not have working telephones and 260 have no vehicles, data shows -Abhishek Dey

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published Published on Jul 27, 2017   modified Modified on Jul 27, 2017
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These numbers differ significantly from corresponding figures collected from the previous year.

Data collected by the Bureau of Police Research and Development shows as many as 1,211 police stations – about 8% of India’s 15,555 police stations – do not have a functional telephone. The data, which was collected by the bureau for its upcoming annual report on police organisations in India, also shows 260 police stations (1.6%) do not have a vehicle, and 103 police stations (0.66%) do not have wireless sets as on January 1.

These numbers have left the bureau baffled because they differ significantly from corresponding figures published in its last annual report, Data on Police Organisations 2016. In that report, 402 police stations were reported to be operating without functional telephones, 188 police stations did not have vehicles, and 65 were operating without both telephones and wireless sets as on January 1, 2016. The states with the worst figures under each of the three categories that year were Chhattisgarh, with 161 police stations without vehicles; Madhya Pradesh, with 111 police stations without functional telephones; and Manipur, with 43 police stations having neither wireless sets nor telephones.

“We have written to all police organisations to cross check their numbers,” said MC Borwankar, director general of Bureau of Police Research and Development. “This is the first time that the bureau went for an online process for gathering such data and police organisations were first trained and then asked to fill up each form themselves.”

The Bureau of Police Research and Development comes under the Union Ministry of Home Affairs.

Data mess up?

A senior official posted with the research wing of the bureau pointed out some sharp differences from last year’s report. Gujarat, which has reported 630 police stations without functional telephones this year, had none under the same category last year. Similarly, Assam reported 137 police stations without telephones as compared to none last year.

Data submitted to the Bureau of Police Research and Development by the Jharkhand Police this year shows that the state has 23 police stations without vehicles, 64 without telephones and 11 without both telephones and wireless sets as compared to zero in all three categories last year. Tripura reported 11 police stations without telephones, compared to none last year. Nagaland too reported 11 police stations without telephones and wireless sets, compared to no such case last year, data shows.

It is not just a question of suspected incorrect data submission by the police organisations this year, the officer said. “It is possible that they did not submit proper data in the previous years and the published figures were actually under-reported,” said the officer. “A notification was issued on July 15, asking all police organisations across states to verify their data once again and communicate with BPRD [Bureau of Police Research and Development] in case of any corrections at the earliest.”

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