Yogi announces several sops for UP policemen on Smriti Diwas

Lucknow, Oct 21: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday announced to hike the number of police awards by over 250 per cent besides introducing different sops for the security personal. "Policemen dedicate their lives for the security of the people and we pay our condolences who lost their life's ," said Yogi while attending the 'Smriti Diwas' programme here at Police lines ground on Saturday. "Our government will always stand for the families of the martyr and will provide all possible assistance to them," CM said. Yogi also handed over citation to some of the family members of the martyred policemen during the function. He said that the ex-gratia payment for the martyr family have been doubled to Rs 40 lakh from Rs 20 lakh while compensation yo their parents have been increased to Rs 10 lakh from Rs 5 lakh. Besides he said 400 youths, who were dependents of the martyr have been given government jobs. The CM announced that the police commendation disc award which was just 200 in a year for the meritorious security personnel have been increased to many golds to 950 a year. "475 police would get during each in Republic Day and Independence day," he said with announcing that 500 would be silver commendation disc,300 gold commendation disc and 150 Platinum commendation disc. Talking about his Government's effort on law and order the CM said police would be turned as a 'programmee friend's ' with providing all security to women and common masses. He also announced that 11,000 policemen got promotion in the six month regime of the BJP government while 47,000 policemen would be recruited soon. In Dial 100 too, 4,493 appointments would be made to strengthen the patrolling system in the state. Yogi appreciating the police Department fir their efforts in controlling crime said that during the past over seven months tenure 543 encounters took place in which 22 rewarded criminals were killed while 130 were injured. A total of 1,403 criminals were arrested including 1080 rewarded ones. He also said that during these encounters 127 policemen were injured but they managed to arrest around 19 suspected terrorists. UNI