Current context:

• At least 300 Assam Police officers will be given voluntary retirement.
• The posts will be filled with fresh recruitment.

Basis for giving VRS:

1. Habitual drunkards

2. Physically unfit

3. Below average performance

• Personnel given VRS will be supported in de-addiction and rehabilitation.
• It will help in creating a professional Police force in Assam.

Other reforms brought by Assam govt:

=> Assam government made a series of reforms with respect to Assam police.

Important reforms to brought:-

1. For work life balance

• Two-shift duty hours to police personnel. One shift will be of 12 hours.
• One-month special leave to that personnel posted at different battalions to enable them to live with their families.

2. Strengthen Security

• 10 battalions of special Commandos to be developed in line with NSG commandos.
• This will help in countering insurgency and bring peace and security in the state.

3. Welfare of Police personnel

• Free compulsory annual health check-up facilities
• Well developed police colonies with all basic amenities.

4. Assam Cyberdrome Project- To counter Cyber Terrorism

5. Project MOITRI- To Modernise Police stations

6. Child Friendly Police Station in Assam

• Bharalumukh police station-Assam’s first child friendly police station was established in 2018.
• Another child friendly police station has been established in Mangaldoi district.

7. Assam Police launches its official Youtube channel ‘The Assam Police Channel,'

State level Police Accountability Commission:

• The State-level Police Accountability Commission will take cases related to serious misconduct of police like fake encounters, custodial torture and death etc.
• The police accountability commission will entertain any complaint filed by a victim or other person on behalf of a victim.