After 7/11, Mumbai Police drew a roadmap, trashed it on 26/11

Tags : Mumbai terror attack, Hemant Karkare, Ashok Kamte, Vijay Salaskar Posted: Wednesday, Jun 03, 2009 at 1829 hrs

ATS chief Karkare with his predecessor K P Raghuvanshi near CST on Nov 26. FILE

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Just the opposite happened.

As they heard about the attacks from the Control Room, several IPS officers, irrespective of rank or areas of jurisdiction, decided on their own to rush to different spots with no clarity on what their role or strategy would be.

No crisis meeting was held, with Police Commissioner Hassan Gafoor driving straight from his Malabar Hill residence to the Oberoi-Trident, which had also been attacked by two other gunmen by then.

According to the SOP, the Joint Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) should assume charge of the police Control Room as the crisis management commander. However, when Gafoor learnt of the attacks, he rang up JCP (Crime) Rakesh Maria and directed him to take charge of the Control Room.

Maria and K L Prasad, JCP (Law and Order), who reside in Avanti building in Malabar Hill and were both at home at the time, left in the same vehicle. While Prasad got off at the Oberoi-Trident, Maria went to the Control Room.

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Mumbai Police is divided into nine zones that are numbered and the Nariman Point-Colaba area falls under Zone 1. IPS officer Vishwas Nangre-Patil, DCP of Zone 1, was in his vehicle and a 10-minute drive away from the Taj Mahal Hotel & Towers, when he heard that it had been attacked and he decided to reach the hotel.

En route, state Director General of Police A N Roy, who, incidentally, was returning from a wedding at the very same Taj hotel, heard about the attacks on his wireless and called Patil. Told that the DCP was about to reach the hotel, Roy diverted his car to his office and set up a control room there. He was joined by then state Home Minister R R Patil but the random deployment of police forces continued.

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Reporting by HindsightBy: A Gokak | 26-Nov-2009 Reply | Forward Vineeta Kamte's investigations through RTI tell the true story, about how the higher ups who are now hungry for the limelight, directed the officers into battlezone with misinformation and little preparedness to face the determined terrorists. The same old story of corruption and vainglorious cowardice of the men at the top! Reporters have spectacularly failed in their job of following various important leads and angles to the story. The media is partisan and corrupt itself to be able to do its job of properly investigating stories of vital interest.

But why this late?By: Rajan | 03-Jun-2009 Reply | Forward OK. The job was mishandled as always. But it is strange that you publish this article NOW, AFTER THE ELECTIONS! Why not before the elections? I feel the media is not duty bound. failing in their job,. And after the Govt Advt.revenue. Mostly keepingmum over the wrong doings of the Govt. This is a bad sign and not good for the nation. Be bold, your duty is for the people, For once forget Money.DO YOUR DUTY FEARLESSLY.TWELL ME .IS THE PRESENT GOVT. DOING THINGS CORRECTLY AGAINST TERRORISTS/WHY THE DRAGGING OF FEET OVER LONG CONVICTED TERRORISTS. LESS TALK AND MORE PUNISHMENT FOR CRIMES. THEY SEEM TO BE STRAINING TO DIG UP OLD CASES THAN PUNISHING THE PRESENT MURDERES.NO ONE CAN SAVE INDIAN AAM JANATHA. THE GOVERNMENT IS OFF THE PEOPLE,FAR FROM THE PEOPLE AND BUYING/BOUGHT BY THE RICH PEOPLEGOD SASVE US

High time police becomes truthful to their professionBy: Mohammed Sabir | 03-Jun-2009 Reply | Forward Commendable job by your reporters.. The police force need to rise above its laid back attitude and for a change without abusing their power on weaker class and communal bias, raise their standards and at least now emerge as a force which can be trusted.

sorry staye of affairsBy: iyer vs | 03-Jun-2009 Reply | Forward No comments, because we are bond to live this fashion or who will vote the same party and that also in mumbai after such a big mistake. And now see this is going to happen in regular basis because you have to wait for another five difficult years. This minister resigned and fellow was removed is all eye washing. Because I have a serrious thinking that these people are also involved, let them proove themself inocent to the court of law, but that is also currupted.

Media plays it both waysBy: R.Kannnan | 03-Jun-2009 Reply | Forward I am unable to understand the criticism of the Police officers. By your own account, they rushed to trouble spots. If they had strictly followed the manual, the media criticism would have been even more harsh.The trouble is the failiure occured earlier - even before the terrorists landed in Mumbai. Apparently, Coast Guard and Navy had information about possible attack by sea and did not take it seriously. Action then would have prevented the incident.Let us say JCP Prasad was in control room in place of JCP Maria. Would that have reduced casualty by even one person ?We need to accept two facts :1. The navy gets away by talking about absence of actionable intelligence.This is not correct. Intelligence inputs are rarely specific and failiure to take corrective action must be analysed to prevent recurrence.2.Command structure without specific anti terrorist training will not work. We saw exceptional bravery bypolicemen, and others involved, but that is not enough.

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