New Delhi: Advocating a transparent recruitment process for constables, Home Secretary Gopal K Pillai on Tuesday said improved police training and regular security drills can lead to a better response during terror strikes like 26/11.
Participating a panel discussion on 'Information Security - Implementation of Technology and Information Security Mechanism for a Secure Tomorrow', Pillai said the country's police training procedures need to be upgraded to address the emerging new challenges.
"Recruitment should be merit-based and training should be proper. That is the first step to make ordinary citizens of India safe," he said.
The Home Secretary said basic policing has to be improved, there should be regular exercise, security drills and fire drills. "...Else we have seen what happened in Mumbai on 26/11," he said.
Pillai said police-people ratio in India is very low among all countries -- just 138 personnel in one lakh population even though it should be 220 personnel in one lakh population as per the United Nations standard.
"In Bihar, we have just 68 policemen (in one lakh population), in Uttar Pradesh it is 81. Now the challenge is how to take the ratio to 200 to 220 in earliest possible time," he said.
The Home Secretary, however, said such a scenario would not emerge before the next 10 years despite government taking urgent steps to augment police training facilities in almost all states.
Pillai said security could be provided to the people with active cooperation of all citizens and cited the example of how an unsecured internet connection of an individual was hacked by terrorists to send a mail immediately after the December 7, 2010 Varanasi blast.
He said 50,000 computers are hacked in every second in India and such attempts are mainly being made from three universities of a neighbouring country.
The Home Secretary said despite "functional anarchy" in India, the country has huge technological, social and economic talents and have been contributing to the country's growth.
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