Police Reform Exercise in Uttar Pradesh | 22 Apr 2022

Why in News?

On April 21, 2022, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath gave many guidelines related to police reforms in a meeting.

Key Points

• In order to increase the efficiency of Uttar Pradesh ATS (Anti-Terrorist Squad), the Chief Minister has directed to prepare a proposal regarding training of its officers and jawans from agencies like US Federal Investigation Agency (FBI) and Home Land Security.
• Apart from this, the Chief Minister also gave some other instructions, the details of which are as follows-
  
  • Formation of UP Special Police Establishment on the lines of CBI.
  • To select and train the soldiers for the new Special Police Operation Team (Spot) of ATS, in the next 100 days,.
  • Formation of Special Task Force unit in Ayodhya in the next 100 days.
• Some decisions have also been taken regarding gender equality in police forces, such as-
  
  • Doubling the number of women workers.
  • Construction of pink booths near religious places.
  • To provide scooty to every female beat constable.
  • Formation of women commando team.