Jammu: The Basantghar Police Station in Udhampur District of Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory has been adjudged as one of the best 10 Police Stations in the country in the Annual Ranking of Police Stations for the year 2021.
Of the Police Stations, Sadar Bazar police station of North Delhi tops the list of best-performing police stations while Basantghar police station of UT Jammu and Kashmir bagged 9th rank as per the assessment by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).
“Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) releases ranking of top 10 Police Stations of the country. Police Station Basantgarh of Udhampur district of our Union Territory, one among top 10 for the year 2021. Great achievement for the J&K Police. DGP J&K Dilbag Singh has complemented the ADGP Jammu Mukesh Singh, DIG Vivek Gupta and SSP Udhampur Sargun Shukla,” Jammu Kashmir police said in a twitter.
Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D) had conducted a Performance Measurement system for grading the Police Stations.
The criteria for measuring the best police stations included smart policing, use of technology in the delivery of services, citizen-centric policing, Public Relations and community policing, people-friendly policing, women and child-friendly policing, better grievance redressal mechanism, the official added.