Delhi LG VK Saxena instructs CP to ensure ample police visibility across national capital

New Delhi [India], September 24 : Delhi Lieutenant Governor (LG) VK Saxena on Tuesday issued instructions to the Police Commissioner to ensure ample police visibility in the city and to prepare a list of senior officers who will be responsible for compliance and ensuring such visibility.
According to an official press note from the LG Office, "A duty chart of senior officers with details of their deployment and their phone numbers will be sent to the LG Secretariat for regular monitoring."

LG Saxena, who has been consistently stressing visible policing as the biggest deterrent against crime, has asked for police personnel on duty to be visibly present in all areas around police beats, chowkis.
As per the press note, ever since LG began reviewing the traffic situation weekly along with senior police and transport officials, the visibility of traffic police personnel on roads has significantly increased.

The Delhi LG has also advised the Police Commissioner to constitute teams of senior officers in plain clothes who can inspect and report on compliance with deployment and police presence in areas.
"Any laxity in the matter will be viewed seriously, the LG has underlined," read the press note.
Earlier on Monday, LG VK Saxena asked the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), Public Work Department (PWD), New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC), Irrigation and Command Area Development (I&CAD), and Delhi Jal Board (DJB) to take up a dust-free Delhi drive over the next one week or ten days and asked the same drive to be converted into a year-long campaign.
LG has advised MCD and PWD to clean the roads, and not leave dust accumulated on the road, transport it to designated dumping sites.
Similarly, agencies responsible for cleaning drains and sewer lines, viz., MCD, I&FCD, and DJB, have been asked to coordinate and get the silt or mud picked up and disposed of.
Saxena emphasised that even if it rains, the exercise of removing the wet mud or silt from the roads should be continued to ensure that they do not flow into drains and sewer lines, in the process choking them.
The departments have been asked to immediately deploy teams and record the work undertaken through "before and after" pictures and videos. The status of ongoing works will be regularly provided to the LG Secretariat, and Saxena will review the status after completion of the first phase of the Dust-Free Delhi exercise.
The Aam Aadmi Party responded to the LG advisory, claiming that Delhi Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj had called all departments to a meeting earlier on this matter, but it could not be held due to the unavailability of officials.