MUMBAI, Feb 7: The committee set up by the Union Home Ministry to review and suggest ways to implement the recommendations of the National Police Commission, Law Commission and National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has recommended to the Centre of the setting up a security commission in each state which will be named as the Police Performance and Accountability Commission (PPAC).The committee headed by Julio F Ribeiro and comprising Prabha Sankaranarayanan and Arun Bhagat as members completed its report and submitted it to the government recently.
In the report, the panel has said that a security commission should be set up in each state consisting of the state Home Minister as the chairman, leader of the Opposition, state Chief Secretary, a sitting or retired judge nominated by the Chief Justice of the state high court and three other non-political persons of proven merit and integrity as members, who should be chosen by a committee to be set up by the chairman of the NHRC.
The committee has saidthat the commission will have advisory and recommending powers for the time being and the state's DGP will be its secretary and convenor.
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