Director General of Police (DGP) Dr. S. P. Vaid has asked his officers to come up with a long term perspective planning in order to bring modernization into the working of the department. He said that every member of the organization has a responsibility to contribute at his level for enhancing professional capabilities in public service.Dr. Vaid was interacting with the officers and scientist of Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) at meeting held at FSL Headquarters here today.DGP said that FSL has an important role in connecting the criminals with the crime so that they could be brought to justice adding that “The role of scientific officers is more credible in the eyes of law which helps to bring investigation to its logical end”.Dr. Vaid said that forensic science has attained more importance in the present times to crack the culprits and provide justice to the innocents. He said that modernization of FSL is also imperative to improve the functioning of laboratories and utilize the capabilities of scientists. He asked the officers to take advantage of modern equipments and technology to confront the latest strategy used by the criminals. He asked for a holistic plan to fully equip the laboratories in order to meet the challenges.DGP further said that crime detection and control is a major responsibility of JKP, besides other areas of policing and state FSL is doing a commendable job in the investigation field. The Wing has to improve its efficiencies to strengthen the investigation methods by adapting modern techniques and using latest equipments for crime control and detection.
Dr. Vaid said that modernization of JKP in all areas of policing is a continuous process and we are focusing to bring our Forensic Laboratories at par with the advanced laboratories of the country, having full-fledged infrastructure. He said that PHQ has been providing all required assistance to make Forensic Laboratories well equipped and reliable to provide every assistance to agencies in bringing the culprits to justice.DGP also inspected all sections of FSL including chemistry & toxicology, biology & serology, documents, ballistics, physics, finger prints, photography and lie-detector.Earlier, Director FSL, Jatinder Singh apprised the DGP about the working of Forensic Laboratories in the State. He said that during the first two months of the year, FSL received 432 cases for expert opinion, out of which 334 have already been disposed off. He informed that two new divisions viz DNA profiling and Cyber Crime has also been created which would be made functional soon.On the occasion, Senior Scientific Officer, Dr. RK Hangloo gave a detailed power point presentation about the present status of FSL and future requirements of the Wing.DGP was accompanied by IsGP, SL Sharma, JP Singh and Surinder Gupta, Dir Prosecution, Pawan Gupta, AIsGP, JA Koul, Sheikh Junaid Mehmood, Mubassir Latifi, Sameer Rekhi and Kulbir Singh, Sr. ADO, Nasir Khan and DD (B), Munish Dutta.