Telangana Prisons DGP offers to work for improving Bihar law and order

HYDERABAD: A senior IPS officer heading the prisons department in Telangana has offered his ‘services’ to improve the law and order situation in Bihar, days after Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in an apparent expression of dissatisfaction over it asked police officials to pull up their socks.

Telangana Director General of Prisons and Correctional Services V K Singh in his letter to the Bihar Chief Secretary and the Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister said he had earlier worked in the state Police and it was a fine force which needs direction.

The officer said he was pained by the kind of reports coming in the media about Bihar which had become synonym for lawlessness and offered his ‘services’ to the state either directly or indirectly.

I take this as my duty to offer my services direct or indirect to the Bihar Government if the government deems it fit. I am willing to share my advice and expertise to improve the situation in Bihar,” he said in the letter, a copy of which was released to media here Friday.

He said it would not be out of place to mention that Telangana prisons had become “the best” in the country in the last three years.

“Bihar prisons and Bihar police could also become the best. It is my humble request to do something to refurbish the image of Bihar, the IPS officer said.

On October 12, Kumar, inaugurating a Rs 320 crore state-of-the art earthquakeresistant complex in Patna which would house the police headquarters, had asked police officials to pull up their socks and “not leave things bhagwan bharose”.

“Get your act together and spare some thought for keeping corruption and crime under control, maintaining social harmony and helping the government in its social reform measures ...... do not leave things bhagwan bharose (to chance),” he had said.

The Bihar chief minister’s terse remarks, in the presence of some of his cabinet colleagues besides top officials, including DGP K S Dwivedi, came in the backdrop of recent criticisms faced by his government on the law and order front.

The officer said he was pained by the kind of reports coming in the media about Bihar