12-06-2008, 01:03 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>IG urges DGP to get bulletproof jackets tested, if required</b>
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Prithviraj Singh | Dehradun
<b>Inspector General of police, Garhwal Range, Ashok Kumar has requested the State Director General of police and other senior police officers to put the bullet proof jackets under test if there is any need. Kumar has accepted the alleged Jacket issue was raised with malafied intention.</b>
<b>âNo laboratory test of jackets was conducted any where whether in police range or at defence range at any point of time. Had that been the case and if jackets would have failed the test we would have definitely gone back to the Defence Research and Development Organisation, DRDO, the supplying agency</b>,â said Kumar.
Interestingly, nearly 100 bullet proof jackets were purchased by the State Police when Kumar was heading modernisation section of the department at police headquarter.
<b>âMoreover these jackets are purchased only after due test conducted by the DRDO, an ace agency on defence products in itself,â </b>added Kumar informing that he had communicated to the DGP Subhash Joshi and other senior officers to test the toughness of jackets if need be.
IG Garhwal emphasised that news regarding jacket put under test secretly by the department was false and only a rumour. <b>âWhy would police administration go against its own staff members if report regarding jacketsâ test failure was trueâ</b> said Kumar. He accepted that â<b>there may be technological gap between present upgraded jackets produced by the DRDO and those available with the state police but laterâs utility value cannot be ruled outâ. </b>According to IG Garhwal jackets available with the department weighs around 6-6.5 kilograms but currently DRDO is producing light weight jackets.
âThis way there may be technological gaps between two generations of the jackets but lot available with us was of equal importanceâ said Kumar. According to the Police headquarter sources 100 bullet proof jackets were procured from DRDO in 2005-06. However only 15-17 pieces are present in Dehradun while rests have been distributed to other districts.
A senior officer from police headquarter refused to comment over the controversial jackets issue and <b>stressed that no test was conducted in the recent past</b>. The jackets in the department have came in the thick of controversy following allegations that one of the jackets was penetrated when fired upon with a<b> .99 bullet during a secret test fire </b>conducted by the police department.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
They should hang these babus who are doing procurement of jackets, one or two example will fix some percentage of Babu corruption in Indian Government.
Pioneer.com
Prithviraj Singh | Dehradun
<b>Inspector General of police, Garhwal Range, Ashok Kumar has requested the State Director General of police and other senior police officers to put the bullet proof jackets under test if there is any need. Kumar has accepted the alleged Jacket issue was raised with malafied intention.</b>
<b>âNo laboratory test of jackets was conducted any where whether in police range or at defence range at any point of time. Had that been the case and if jackets would have failed the test we would have definitely gone back to the Defence Research and Development Organisation, DRDO, the supplying agency</b>,â said Kumar.
Interestingly, nearly 100 bullet proof jackets were purchased by the State Police when Kumar was heading modernisation section of the department at police headquarter.
<b>âMoreover these jackets are purchased only after due test conducted by the DRDO, an ace agency on defence products in itself,â </b>added Kumar informing that he had communicated to the DGP Subhash Joshi and other senior officers to test the toughness of jackets if need be.
IG Garhwal emphasised that news regarding jacket put under test secretly by the department was false and only a rumour. <b>âWhy would police administration go against its own staff members if report regarding jacketsâ test failure was trueâ</b> said Kumar. He accepted that â<b>there may be technological gap between present upgraded jackets produced by the DRDO and those available with the state police but laterâs utility value cannot be ruled outâ. </b>According to IG Garhwal jackets available with the department weighs around 6-6.5 kilograms but currently DRDO is producing light weight jackets.
âThis way there may be technological gaps between two generations of the jackets but lot available with us was of equal importanceâ said Kumar. According to the Police headquarter sources 100 bullet proof jackets were procured from DRDO in 2005-06. However only 15-17 pieces are present in Dehradun while rests have been distributed to other districts.
A senior officer from police headquarter refused to comment over the controversial jackets issue and <b>stressed that no test was conducted in the recent past</b>. The jackets in the department have came in the thick of controversy following allegations that one of the jackets was penetrated when fired upon with a<b> .99 bullet during a secret test fire </b>conducted by the police department.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
They should hang these babus who are doing procurement of jackets, one or two example will fix some percentage of Babu corruption in Indian Government.