The most visible organization and the foundation of the government machinery is the police. To judge the performance of police stations at grassroots level, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs conducts an yearly exercise to adjudge the best police stations across India. In Chandigarh, Sector 11 police station has been ranked the best police station in its annual ranking of police stations for the year 2022.
Sector 11 police station is headed by SHOJasbir Singh. A Certificate of Excellence signed by Union Home Minister, Amit Shah and Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla was issued to the police station.
“A lot of parameters are taken into consideration for the award. The team visits the police station 3-4 times over a period of over 5 months and checks records, talk to the RWAs (resident welfare associations), market associations and take feedback from the public,” says SHO Jasbir Singh, heading the Sector 11 police station.
Talking to CityWoofer, Jasbir Snigh says,”My main aim along with my staff is prevention and detection of crime. I lay stress on how the police personnel deal with complainants and their behaviour with the general public”. Inspector Jasbir Singh has investigated over 11 cases of murder and secured convictions against suspects in all cases.
Talking about Chandigarh, where he has been deployed since 1992, he says, “There is no political pressure or bureaucratic interference or by the senior police officers in the registration of FIRs . Everything is free and fair.”
Regarding the dismal image of the police pan-India, he says, “There are inherent problems in every department of the government, so we cannot pinpoint the police alone”.
Dalbir Singh, Senior Advisor, TRUAGRICO, a body which conducted the survey on behalf of MHA, says, “We check data of the past three years, the daily performance, type of cases registered and in how much time they were resolved, etc. There are about 60-70 indicators on the basis of which report is prepared”.
How well are the government flagship programmes like sarva shiksha abhiyaan, safai abhiyaan,cyber crime, and other awareness campaigns propagated among the public is also one of the criteria. There are three types of interviews that are conducted by the MHA team. “Firstly, we talk to complainants about police behaviour and response to their complaint, secondly we talk to shopkeepers, RWAs, in the vicinity and thirdly, we take the general public’s perception into account. We have questionnaires with at least 25-30 questions in each type,” says Singh.
SHO Jasbir Singh has won award earlier too
In 2020 and 2021, Sector 26 police station had been declared the best police station respectively. Interestingly, Inspector Jasbir Singh, was the SHO of Sector 26 police station in both 2020 and 2021.
