New Delhi: In an administrative transfer setting the stage for taking over-the-counter terrorism and counter-insurgency roles in Jammu division, the Central Reserve Police Power (CRPF) is all set to take over 21 camps of the Military, as per an order issued by the pressure.
These 21 camps—15 in Kathua and 6 in Udhampur districts—could be taken over by the pressure, together with some by the Commando Battalion for Resolute Motion (CoBRA), a specialised CRPF wing recognized for its guerrilla warfare.
There will likely be practically two dozen CoBRA corporations deployed at any given time within the Jammu division, in line with a CRPF order. Udhampur and Kathua are thought of delicate places beneath the inner safety equipment as a result of infiltrators use them to mount assaults on safety forces.
In response to the sources, the main points of the Military’s deinduction and CRPF’s induction at these camps had been submitted earlier than the Particular DG-rank officer, who heads the J&Ok Zone, by the Jammu zone chief of the pressure.
Within the communication, the IG-rank officer states that the contemporary deployment and induction of 18 CoBRA corporations are a part of the long-term strategic plan outlined in August final yr. Sources within the pressure stated that the CRPF has been mandated to take over from the Military and its specialised counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism unit, the Rashtriya Rifles, within the Union Territory.
“This was lengthy envisaged by the safety institution that the CRPF ought to take some burden off counter-insurgency from the shoulders of the Military, and the planning of such switch of tasks was underway for a number of months to make it a easy transition,” a CRPF supply advised ThePrint.
Their growth within the counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism work in Jammu comes months after the Ministry of Residence Affairs (MHA) deployed them in one other conflict-ridden state, Manipur. On the request of the Manipur authorities, the MHA deployed two CoBRA battalions in Manipur.
Referred to as ‘jungle warriors’ for his or her capacity to trace and hunt insurgents in jungles, the CoBRA battalions had been earlier deployed in central India within the areas affected by Left-Wing Extremism (LWE). Nevertheless, over the previous couple of years, the CRPF brass has made strikes to familiarise itself with totally different terrains and dealing situations.
As a part of the identical goal, the MHA had deployed six corporations of CoBRA in Jammu and Kashmir in 2023 for familiarisation induction. Nevertheless, they had been shortly pulled out of the Union Territory and redeployed to the LWE theatre.
(Edited by Tony Rai)
