Modi Government to raise a police force to guard India’s coastline
Central government will be raining a new police force exclusively to guard India’s 7,000km-long coastline. India’s coastline is porous and beacause of this porous coastline, terrorists easily enter into the mainland and did Mumbai terror attack like attacks.
As per home ministry, this new force would be under the control of the central government and it would be called as Coastal Border Police Force.
As per the spokesperson of Home Ministry, this proposal for the coastal force is still at an early stage. Preparation and planning meetings are chaired home minister Rajnath Singh. It was further said, “Half of the officer cadre of the new force will drawn from the India Police Service and the rest will initially come from other paramilitary forces on deputation.”.
