Women safety, more focus on Jewar priorities of new police chief
: Laxmi Singh, who took over from IPS officer Alok Singh as the second police commissioner of the Gautam Budh Nagar district on Wednesday, said she has plans to focus on urban policing and better manning of the porous borders of the district to keep the organised crime nexus in check.
A 2000-batch IPS officer, Singh also said she would focus more on Jewar, an area that was fast becoming a development hub -- the new international airport is coming up there -- and a plan of action is being prepared for the same.
The newly appointed police commissioner, who hold the rank of inspector general, met all senior officers of the GB Nagar commissionerate on Wednesday and took stock of the situation in the district, besides seeking the crime data of the district.
“Being part of the National Capital Region, Gautam Budh Nagar has certain peculiarities and challenges. Keeping those in mind, the commissionerate system was first implemented here and it has been nearly three years since it was established. I will try to systemically develop, integrate and strengthen the commissionerate in a way that it becomes an example for others,” said Singh. She added that being part of NCR, the policing in Noida is often compared with that in Delhi and the standards will, therefore, be accordingly appraised.
Forty-eight-year-old Singh is the first woman police commissioner in Uttar Pradesh. While stating that she did not prefer being labelled a “woman officer”, Singh maintained that women security will be one of her priorities.