Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir Police will become the first police force in the nation to be equipped with American assault rifles and pistols. The terrorists and anti-national elements will be answered by the latest weapons. The Jammu and Kashmir Police recently floated tenders on the online GeM portal. It issued tenders for 500 Sig Sauer-716 rifles and 100 Sig Sauer MPX 9 mm pistols.
According to the weapons experts the rifle weights around 3.81 kg without the magazine and fires at a cycle rate of 650-850 per minute. The new equipment would provide a massive boost for the anti-terror operations.
The police officials said the procurement of new weapons and gadgets is in line with its aim to upgrade the personnel with the latest technologies to combat terrorists.
Vijay Kumar, Inspector General, Kashmir said that Modernisation has been going on for the last few years and it will continue in the future as well. We are getting new weapons and drones. J&K Police has been upgrading itself for the past few years, but the most important was the technical surveillance and technical input generation capability.
“Jammu and Kashmir police have been focussing on tactics and firing skills. It’s the police that gets 75-85 percent of information about the terror groups and terrorists. We use both human intelligence and technical surveillance to get all the information.” Kumar said.
(_Vinayak Barot)
