Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday made a series of announcements to strengthen the state police. The announcements include annual recruitment of personnel for police and fire services departments, construction for their housing, creation of youth brigade, extension of closed user group telephony facility to family members, residential school for children and others measures.
Jayalalithaa also announced hike in food allowances to Rs 200 from Rs 85 a day for the sniffer and tracker police dogs and setting up of solar power units in 500 police stations at an outlay of Rs 20 crore.
Replying to the debate on the demands for grants for the police and fire services departments, Jayalalithaa said: "This year 17,138 constables, 1,091 sub-inspectors and 1,005 fire service personnel and 292 prison warders would be recruited through Tamil Nadu Uniformed Services Recruitment Board."
She said the government has decided to fill up the vacancies on an annual basis after identifying the likely vacancies in advance....
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