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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Bihar spends Rs 170cr annually guarding VIPs -Gyan Prakash

Bihar spends Rs 170cr annually guarding VIPs -Gyan Prakash

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published Published on Apr 17, 2013   modified Modified on Apr 17, 2013
-The Times of India


PATNA: Bihar spends Rs 170 crore annually deploying 5,000 police personnel out a force of 60,000 as bodyguards for politicians, judges, bureaucrats, police officers, members of constitutional bodies and other governmental functionaries.

The NDA government in 2007 had created separate posts of 5,800 bodyguards which were later merged with the police. Patna district police has 1,500 such bodyguards.

One constable used to be assigned to each MLA or MLC, but the scale was enhanced to three after BJP MLA Raj Kishore Keshri was stabbed to death at his Purnia residence on January 4, 2011. Feeling that it was impossible for a single constable to shadow a VIP for 24 hours the government allocated cops with carbines to each legislator on eight hours shifts.

Ministers are entitled to have a personal security officer of the rank of ASI or SI apart from the three bodyguards. The chief minister is provided Z-plus security with a separate battalion of Special Security Guards, special branch sleuths and district policemen on guard detail. All the bodyguards of the CM are trained at the VIP Training Institute of Central Industrial Security Force in Rajasthan.

Private individuals fearing threat from criminals also approach the police headquarters for bodyguards for payment. They have to pay salary to the bodyguards as fixed by the government which comes to around Rs 25,000 per month. "Currently two contractors have been given police bodyguards for payment," said a police officer.

Whether a person really needs a bodyguard or not is assessed by the district security committee which consists of the district magistrate, superintendent of police and others. Their recommendation is sent to the police headquarters for its approval.


The Times of India, 17 April, 2013, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Bihar-spends-Rs-170cr-annually-guarding-VIPs/articleshow/19587861.cms


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