Samba Police Website Defunct Since Last 4 Years

Complaint  filed Against Samba Police for Publishing Obsolete Information on its Website

Jammu, 10/May/2017: A complaint against district police Samba is presented before the Chief Minister,  Mehbooba Mufti for  serving obsolete information to the citizens through their  official website  “ Sambapolice.gov.in” .

In the complaint, submitted through online portal popularly known as CM grievance cell, (No: 66498) by a Jammu resident and RTI activist Raman Sharma it is being submitted that the samba police website is showing Ashok Parsad , IPS as Director General of State Police and his photo is also published  along with former IGP Jammu, former DIG Jammu-Kathua-Samba Range, even the photo of former SSP Samba along with his name is mentioned and shown as incumbent SSP in the website. Whereas there is no mentioning of name or photo of factual incumbent officers.

Expressing displeasure over the out dated information served to the people through district police  website , the complainant has submitted “It is really very unfortunate that on one side the Union  government of India and even the state government of Jammu and Kashmir  is taking various measures for digitalization and modernization of our police force and spending crores of rupees for computerization of records but on the other hand there are some people who defying it with impunity”.

Sharma has also alleged that obsolete information published in the website reveals that the website has not been updated for years as no officer of the district police ever took  pain to update the information on their official website.

Demanding inquiry in the negligent act, he has urged the CM to order a high level probe to identify the delinquent officers/official and direct the officers to immediately update the webpage. Snapshot of the webpage http://sambapolice.gov.in/  have also been attached with the prayer to the Chief Minister.

Anticipating any revengeful action from any inattentive officer whose negligence and incompetency is being exposed in the petition, in his complaint to the CM, the petitioner have made it clear that he should not be unnecessarily harassed for highlighting this negligence of the police department.

It is pertinent to mention here in the website it is clearly mentioned that it was last updated 4 years ago on 09/Dec/2013.

ON 18/May 2017 CM's Secretariat forwards Complaint to SSP Samba and then this Website goes off, deactivated.

CM Secretariat’s Directive Compels Samba Police to Deactivate its Defunct Website

Jammu, 21/May/2017: Following Complaint of a citizen and then after communication from the chief minister’s secretariat, the Samba Police finally compelled to deactivate its official website that was serving obsolete information to the citizens for years together. On 10^th of this month, Jammu resident Raman Sharma had filed a complaint with the Chief Minister Grievance Cell complaining that the official website of Samba Police ‘Samabpolic.gov.in’ was serving obsolete information to the citizens and the visitors of the website.

In his Complaint through JK CM grievance Cell (66498), the complainant had submitted “The clock and calendar of district Police Samba perhaps not moving with the Indian Standard Time and Calendar Years and this is the reason that even till date their website is informing people that Sh. Ashok Parsad , IPS is Director General of State Police, moreover the picture of the former DGP of the state is also published there prominently along with former IGP Jammu, former DIG Jammu Kathua Samba Range, even the photo of former SSP Samba along with his name is mentioned and shown as incumbent SSP in the website.”

The complainant had also questioned the digitalization and modernization of records in the state police when the government of India and the state government were spending million of rupees for it. He had also demanded a probe to identify the negligent officers of the Samba police who did not updated the contents of the website after year 2013.

Taking cognizance of Raman’s complaint, the CM secretariat on 18/May/2017 forwarded the complaint to SSP Samba to dispose of it an earliest and thus finally the district police deactivated its websites perhaps to undertake necessary upgradation of the content and information.