With half sanctioned strength and obsolete weapons, UP police is a mess

The CAG also noted that the traffic police has few officers and lacks equipment to monitor and control rapidly growing traffic and increasing length of road networks.

Obsolete weapons, half the manpower and outdated communication technology is how the Comptroller and Auditor General has described the Uttar Pradesh police.

The CAG report titled 'Performance Audit of Modernisation and Strengthening of Police Forces' also said that forensic science labs in the state were ill-equipped to handle increasing number of requests for examination of samples for investigation.

The report pointed out "the state still has only about 50% of the police stations against the required number" and there is "an acute shortage of residential and other than residential accommodation for police personnel", while projects are "inordinately delayed by construction agencies".

"Mobility of the police force for patrolling and other purposes is severely constrained due to the acute shortage of vehicles and obsolescence of its fleet," it said.

The CAG also noted that the traffic police has few officers and lacks equipment to monitor and control rapidly growing traffic and increasing length of road networks.

Besides, the central auditor has pointed out "severe capacity constraints" plaguing the police training establishment that "lacks modern infrastructure to impart state-of-the-art training".

The report for the year ended March 31, 2016, was recently tabled in the Uttar Pradesh assembly.n made worse as the Centre and the state governments had failed to release their due share for the modernisation scheme during 2006-11.

The Centre released "Rs 496.84 crore (70 per cent)" during the period, of its due share, as against "Rs 162.20 crore (38 per cent)" allocated by the state, the audit report said.

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