Adityanath Asks UP Police To Recruit 10,000 Cops In 100 Days, Activate Anti-Romeo Squads

CM Adityanath also instructed that from the first day of Navratri (Saturday), the police department should run a special campaign for the safety of girls.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath (Getty Images)

New Delhi: A day after asking service selection boards to provide government jobs to youths, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday directed the police department to recruit at least 10,000 police personnel in the next 100 days.

Adityanath held a meeting with senior officials of the police department on Friday. 

Later in the day, the state home department approved filling up of 5,381 posts in the cybercrime, forensic science, social media, STF and ATS wings, PTI reported.

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Additional Chief Secretary, Home, Awanish Awasthi said of the 5,381 posts, 86 were gazetted category posts and 5,295 non-gazetted.

"Approval for new posts is also being given to ensure the availability of manpower as per requirement in the police force and make the police administration better," PTI quoted Awasthi as saying.

CM Adityanath has also directed the police department to activate Anti-Romeo squads near schools and colleges. He also 
instructed that from the first day of Navratri (Saturday), the police department should run a special campaign for the safety of girls.

"From the first day of Navratri, the police department will start a special campaign pertaining to women's safety. 'Anti-Romeo' squads will be activated near schools and colleges. In the evening, the police will undertake foot patrolling in the busy markets and crowded places," a statement said.

'Anti-Romeo' squads were formed during Yogi Adityanath's first stint as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh in 2017.

Instructions were also issued to the home department to initiate strict action against criminals, mafia elements, and seize or destroy their illegal properties.

The chief minister directed the police department to identify top 10 criminals in every police station area and initiate stringent action against them.

Adityanath had earned the sobriquet of "bulldozer baba" during the recently concluded elections due to his repeated reference to the heavy machine that was deployed by his government to raze the ill-gotten property of criminals and mafias in Uttar Pradesh.