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PIONEER EDGE NEWS SERVICE /Dehradun Chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Wednesday announced recruitment in 1,600 vacant posts in the State police and doubled the budget for police stations from Rs four crore to Rs eight crore. The announcements were made during the Police Commemoration Day programme at Police Lines in Dehradun. Dhami paid tribute to police personnel who died in the line of duty and honoured their families at the Martyrs Memorial. He also announced on the occasion eight measures to strengthen the police force and improve facilities for personnel and their families. The CM said that the government would review staffing requirements at police stations and outposts. Investigating officers would also be provided with modern investigation kits. Other measures include improving all police modern schools in the state, constructing a transit hostel and multi- storey barracks for police personnel in Dehradun and upgrading the police hospital in the city. Addressing the gathering, Dhami said 154 police and paramilitary personnel across the country had died in the line of duty over the past year. They included Uttarakhand police sub-inspector Vinod Kumar. He said that the police keep playing a key role in tackling drug trafficking and cybercrime. “The State has formed a three tier Anti-Narcotics Task Force to curb drug trafficking. Construction of a State Cyber Crime Coordination Centre, at a cost of around Rs 32 crore, is also underway,” he said. He lauded the Uttarakhand police for managing the movement of around five crore Kanwars and more than 60 lakh Char Dham pilgrims this year. Addressing the commemorative programme, the director general of police Deepam Seth said that 206 Uttarakhand police personnel had sacrificed their lives in the line of duty since the formation of the State, adding that around Rs 50 lakh had been provided to the families of deceased personnel through the Police Martyrs’ Fund this year. The DGP also said that 446 children of police personnel had received scholarships worth Rs 34 lakh to support their higher education.