In Uttar Pradesh Police,a lot of experiments have been done in the last four years and all were failed,whether it was Thana Diwas,Replacement of SSP/SPs with the DIGs in 8 mahanagars,creation of Uttar Pradesh Police NCR Zone and so forth.In Uttar Pradesh,every district police have QRTs,for delievering quick response to any criminal incident or any other mishappening.But,in Uttar Pradesh,the decision of establishing Quick Response Team was taken without any plan or strategy.Definition of QRT,reveals that,when any criminal incident takes place at any place in district,then a quick response will be made by a special team of district police,but in Uttar Pradesh,response of QRT is muted.Policemen of QRTs have not been given special training to make quick response according to the need of the hour,they are engaged in daily work of police station due to which they get tired and at the time of duty,they take rest under the shadow of the tree or in QRT jeep,they are not equipped with proper tools and instruments to make quick response.I give you an example;two years earlier,when marriage season was going on,a marriage party was organized in a guest house located opposite to my home. Suddenly,two groups clashed with each other.When I saw the scene,then I suddenly made a call to Control Room and i had informed the policeman about the situation.I had called the Control Room at 10:10 pm and QRT of police came at 10:50 pm and unfortunately,till that time,a compromise was made between those groups.So,I have witnessed the result of mismanagement,because the area in which I live comes under a police station which is located far from my house.Some months ago,Lucknow Police included new QRT gypsy,which is looking like a QRT of modern police force,but the policemen who are responsible for making quick response are the same.They are trained to respond in the same way as they did in other incidents.I am sad,that state government is not taking any principle of police management seriously.With the changing environment of security scenario in the district,QRTs must be equipped with latest and modern technological equipments like GPS,policemen should be given special training for making quick response.Government should provide them better incentives,take care of their health,provide them modern weapons,increase the number of policemen and QRTs,give them proper training regarding the management of response time in an appropriate way, and the most important thing,treat them as the members of QRT.Quick Response Teams are the backbone of Uttar Pradesh Police and I would urge the state government to not make them paralysed.State Government should not make QRT only as a symbol of better policing.
