Home Ministry sanctions 10,000 SPOs for J&K Police

The decision was taken by the the Government after the deadliest terror attack in the Northern Kashmir’s Uri sector of Baramullah district on Sunday.

Terrorists attacked a battalion headquarters, which is 6-km from LoC and 18 Army personnel were killed and another 20 were injured in a suicide attack.

The orders have been implemented with immediate effect and the additional numbers is over and above the existing strength of the SPOs.

 The additional SPOs will be utilized especially for the security related requirements. The reimbursement of expenditure to the State Government by the Centre in respect of 10,000 SPOs will be as per existing approved Security Related Expenditure (SRE) Guidelines.

The Union Home Minister chaired high-level security review meeting at the ministry of home affairs over the prevailing situation in Jammu and Kashmir consecutively on Monday and Tuesday. National security adviser Ajit Doval, the director of the Intelligence Bureau, RAW chief, foreign secretary S Jaishankar, minister of state in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) Jitendra Singh and other senior home and defence officials were present in the meeting.