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If I were the CP, I'd have been seen & heard more
Updated On: 17 January, 2009 08:02 AM IST | | Alisha Coelho
Former top cop Julio Ribeiro lashes out at the way Mumbai police, including Commissioner Hasan Gafoor, handled 26/11
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Former top cop Julio Ribeiro lashes out at the way Mumbai police, including Commissioner Hasan Gafoor, handled 26/11
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Speaking to MiD DAY yesterday on the sidelines of a conference jointly organised by the non-profit organisations Bombay First and London First, Ribeiro said being a more visible head "would have instilled confidence in the force by a 100 per cent."
Calling the city's disaster management system an "unorganised" affair, Ribeiro also had cutting words for city cops, "where even a constable has a political godfather".
"We met the PM on January 10 and will soon present a series of police reforms that need to be implemented immediately, the most important being the introduction of transparency in the system and the next being the elimination of political interference in investigations and administration as has been the case in 26/11," added Ribeiro, not elaborating on the nature of these interferences.
Ribeiro, who was the commissioner of police in Mumbai from 1982 to 1985, was among the national and international speakers at the conference where success and failure stories of New York's 9/11, London's 7/7 and Mumbai's 26/11 were shared.
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| Though Gafoor was spearheading operations from Nariman House within minutes of the attack, he and State Director General of Police A N Roy came under fire from several quarters for not coming on live TV to communicate with the public and the police force in order to instill confidence. Later, slain additional commissioner of police Ashok Kamte's widow, Vineeta, also said that while NSG DG S K Dutta was vocal about how u00a0Major Sanjeep Unnikrishnan, laid down his life fighting the terrorists, the Mumbai police leadership kept quiet about the sacrifice made by their men. |
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