‘Special 21’ commando force on the move in Mysuru
Mysuru: The new team Mysuru District Police 'Specila 21', is now cracking down on offences across the district under direct supervision of Superintendent of Police Ravi D. Channannavar.
D-SWAT – District Special Weapons and Tactics, a trained commando force – has begun working here since February 7. The 21-member force, with an inspector and sub-inspector in the team, has been specially trained in counterterrorism, anti-sabotage, VVIP security, rescue operations and much more.
The members, who were handpicked from the police force, have been trained at the Centre for Counter-Terrorism at Kudlu in Bengaluru.
Mr. Channannavar told that only personnel who were interested had been picked up for the force and all of them underwent a rigorous training.
Special 21 will move across the district from one taluk to another in mufti and attend to such complaints. In two days, the team arrested nine people in a liquor-related case and 16 people in various other cases.
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Punjab Police cops withdrawn from Kejriwal's security
Chandigarh, Jan 23 (PTI): Punjab Police personnel deployed in the security of Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal have been withdrawn, the state police chief said on Thursday.
"Time to time, we get reports of threats to chief minister Bhagwant Mann and Arvind Kejriwal and we share them with the concerned agencies.
"Following the directions of the Delhi police and the Election Commission today, we withdrew the component of the Punjab police in the security of Kejriwal ji," Director General of Police Gaurav Yadav told reporters in Patiala.
"We showed our concerns to them. We will remain in touch with them. We will share our inputs with the Delhi police," he said.
The development comes ahead of the elections for the 70-member Delhi Assembly on February 5. The poll results are set to be declared on February 8.
