For the first time, the Jammu and Kashmir police have deployed 960 specially trained personnel to border areas of the Union Territory to combat terrorism and infiltration from Pakistan.
According to the Indian Express newspaper, these personnel have been trained on the lines of US Marines and cannot be deployed for any other duty.
Of 960 policemen, 560 have been deployed to the Jammu border areas, while the rest are in Kashmir Valley.
J&K Director General of Police RR Swain told the Express that these men were recruited from the border areas.
“They will work only on anti-infiltration and anti-terrorism fronts and they will not be deployed as PSOs (personal security officers) or in the office or for any other extra work,” he said.
“There are strict restrictions on them," he added.
“Their supervisory officers too have been strictly instructed that they cannot be shifted to other jobs than their original anti-infiltration and anti-terrorism work. You will deploy them only on anti-infiltration and anti-terrorism work so that the general area security gets enhanced and it becomes extremely difficult for the adversary to infiltrate and spread terror,” DGP Swain said.
He further said that these policemen are “very young” and that they know the area well and also understand the tactics of the enemy.
“They are our own boys and they are not from places from outside Jammu and Kashmir – not even from other districts of J&K, but from the respective border tehsils only,” he said.
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