Friday, January 25, 2008

Formation of Crime Cell by Gujarat State Govt. to prevent poaching

25-1-2008

Formation of Crime Cell by Gujarat State Govt. to prevent poaching

Gujarat Samachar (Briefly translated from Gujarati)

After poaching of 8 lions in Mar- April 2007 Government and forest department have become vigilant.

Bharat Pathak, Conservator of Junagadh, informed that a Monitoring Committee is formed. President / chair person of this committee is Range DIG of police. Other members of this committee are CF-WL Junagadh, CF-SF Junagadh, Suptd of Police (SP) Junagadh, SP Bhavnagar, SP Amreli, DCF Gir W and DCF Gir E.

Also Forest Crime Prevention Cell is formed by Forest Department at Gandhinagar. The main function of this cell is to detection of wildlife crimes.

Recently management has recruited 300 Van Mitras (Forest Friends) who will gather information about illegal activities. Apart from this also movement is ON to recruit 100 forest guards and six foresters.

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