Srinagar, Jan 26: Centre has decided to redeploy the Border Security Force at the borders and utilize the services of central reserve police force for internal security duties in Jammu and Kashmir, BSF inspector general G S Gill said here today. "Government of India has taken a policy decision whereby CRPF has been selected as the main force to fight insurgency and BSF to guard the borders to further strengthen the frontiers of the country", gill told reporters after unfurling the national tricolour at the historic Lal Chowk here.
He said the process will be set in motion this year but it had not yet been decided in which sector BSF will be reinducted first.
Official sources said initially eight battalions of CRPF will take over from BSF to fight insurgency in the state. Later, it will gradually relieve BSF from internal security duties and don the mantle to fight insurgency in the state. The process will take few months time, he added.
Expressing satisfaction over the peaceful passing off of Republic Day celebrations, Gill said apart from the usual militant threats, this year there were specific warnings about vehicles being prepared for fidayeen (suicide) attacks.
"In fact we even reacted to two or three specific reports and in one case actually recovered an IED (improvised explosive device) which was supposed to be in a car but was found on the roadside", the IG BSF said adding "we have taken all the threats seriously and have managed to keep the day peaceful". Bureau Report