Uttar Pradesh To Set Up Special Security Force

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A special force will be set up in Uttar Pradesh, with powers similar to the CISF (Central Industrial Security Force),
That can search and arrest without a warrant, the state government said on Sunday.

Additional chief secretary (Home)
Awanish Kumar Awasthi said-
The SSF has been established in view of an Allahabad high court order to the state government for security and protection of all court premises in the state.
On December 18, 2019, the Allahabad court had pulled up the Uttar Pradesh government over a shootout at a Bijnor courtroom.
On December 17, three assailants opened fire in the court of the Bijnor chief judicial magistrate,
Killing a murder accused and injuring three others — two police personnel and a court employee.

A two-judge High Court bench had said “most incompetent police personnel are being posted at the courts”,
Adding that it would “seek the deployment of central forces if the state government is not up to the task”.

According to the administration,
The UPSSF will be deployed at local courts, apart from metro railway stations, airports, industrial sites, banks, religious places, pilgrimage sites, and financial institutions.
Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Kumar Awasthi said,
“The new force would not only provide effective security to important places,
It would also help the administration in utilising PAC (Provincial Armed Constabulary) and local police force for better maintenance of law and order and crime control.”

An IPS officer of additional director general (ADG) rank will head the force.
But superintendence of the force will vest in DGP.

The “Uttar Pradesh Special Security Force” (UPSSF), according to the government, would be equipped with “high-level professional skills” related to security-related works and
Generate revenue for the state by charging private individuals and private institutions seeking its services.

The security force will be formed on the lines of “state vital installation force” already in place in other states,
Like Maharashtra and Odisha where they provide security to the government, semi-government as well as financial, religious, educational, cultural and health-related institutions.

The force will have the power to search and make arrests without a warrant.
“Any member of the force can, without the prior permission of any magistrate and without
any warrant, arrest any person,“
“Separate rules for this section would be framed”.