Patil mulls giving more teeth to police

“The basic idea of the meeting was how to implement the decision taken by the Union Cabinet in a time-bound and well-coordinated manner,” Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta said after the 90-minute meeting held at Patil’s residence.

He said the government was also planning to utilise retired personnel from army and other paramilitary forces to fill the vacant posts in the police force.

The meeting has been convened in the wake of serial bomb blasts in the national capital claiming 24 lives.