Indian Armed Forces being trained for counter stone operations in occupied Kashmir
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Indian Police and CRPF personnel are being trained in standard operating procedures (SOPs) to help them deal with stone throwing incidents in Kashmir, CRPF Director General RR Bhatnagar said on Wednesday.
The DG said strategy, training and new SOPs had been formulated.
"Using non-lethal ammunition mostly, we along with J&K police have devised a strategy to put to work during strikes and stone pelting and you will see its effect soon," he said.
The DG was talking to reporters on the sidelines of a function held for widows of paramilitary personnel killed on duty. Among the personnel killed was Commandant Pramod Kumar, who died in a attack on August 15 last year.
On counter-insurgency operations in Kashmir, Bhatnagar said security forces were meeting with success.
"There is good coordination between the JK police, Army and CRPF, who are all working as one unit, and the operations will continue in the future as well," he said.
Referring to the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen operational commander Yasin Itoo last week, the DG CRPF said seven commanders had been killed this year and 132 others "neutralised" during the operations.
"In the coming time, we will have more successes," he said.