Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday held a second high-level review meeting on law and order and policing at the Delhi Police headquarters in less than three weeks, with discussions focusing on women’s safety, organised crime, arms smuggling and the overall law-and-order situation in the national capital.
The meeting, attended by Delhi Lieutenant Governor Taranjit Singh Sandhu and senior Delhi Police officers, lasted over three hours, police said.
HM Shah reached the police headquarters on Jai Singh Road around 3.15 pm and held detailed discussions with senior officers on various aspects of policing, intelligence gathering and security preparedness.
According to sources, Thursday’s meeting was the second part of the review held on October 24 and was intended to take stock of the issues discussed during the earlier meeting.
The discussions focused on women’s safety, organised crime, arms smuggling and law and order. The meeting also reviewed deliberations held on October 24 concerning women’s safety and drug syndicates, the sources said.
Several other issues related to policing and security were also discussed during the meeting.
The meeting assumes significance in the wake of recent security incidents in neighbouring regions. In Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district, three CRPF personnel were injured, one of them critically, after suspected terrorists opened fire at a security checkpoint near Mir Bazar on Wednesday, a police source had said.
The source also referred to a recent attack in Ghaziabad, where an explosion at the Vasundhara police outpost on November 6 left a food delivery worker injured and damaged the premises. Multiple agencies, including the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad, examined the incident amid claims of a possible terror link.
During his previous visit on October 24, HM Shah had chaired a security review meeting at the Delhi Police headquarters, which was attended by Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, Police Commissioner Anurag Kumar and other senior officers.
The discussions during that meeting covered police preparedness to handle large gatherings and protests, intelligence collection, crowd management and coordination among various units.
