Meghalaya to modernize police force

Shillong | July 5  : Meghalaya government will ask New Delhi's  help in modernizing the state police force. Speaking at the inaugural function of the police reserve administrative building in Shillong on Friday, chief minister of Meghalaya DD Lapang said the government could not provide the needs of the personnel’s who are in the forefront of the state's efforts to come out of any crisis but vouche to seek New Delhi's immediate intervention to solve the problems.   Lapang said, “For the Fourth Pay Commission and the police modernization scheme, we are going to New Delhi to ask the centre’s help”.
“Everything is in my table and the police department is one area that we are also concentrating it more”, said Lapang. DD Lapang praised the police role even as he asked them to ignore the people’s suspicion. His pointer indirectly is on the severe criticism received by the police after it gave a clean chit to a Congress Member of the District Council (MDC) and party fund raiser who is alleged of funding the slain mastermind of the May 31  Shillong jail break.
Giving his mantra to the police personnel, Lapang said that there are three categories of people. “One who looked at the darker side of the coin, the other to the brighter side of the coin and the third category are those people who look at both sides of the coin”, stated Lapang while urging the uniformed men to be more receptive on those people who fall under the third category. “We may have black sheep in the police department but this does not mean that the public should generalize the whole department”, stated the chief minister