Manipur Police seeks Army help for 7.62mm MMG training amid rising violence
Manipur police have approached the Army on the use of 7.62mm MMG to train its personnel. Due to the deteriorating law and order situation in Manipur, the Manipur police Department has purchased these arms from Ordnance Factory Jabalpur. Unidentified miscreants torched the house of a retired police officer in Jiribam in Manipur.
Assistant Director (Administration) in Manipur Police Training College, Pangei in a letter to the Colonel GS(Operation), 57th Mountain Division, Manipur, “Due to the deteriorating law and order situation in Manipur, the Manipur police Department has purchased a few 7.62mm MMG MK 2A1 from Ordnance Factory Jabalpur.The MMG's have already been collected and have reached the State. However, as Manipur Police does not have any trained manpower on the above-mentioned weapon, it is requested that a training team consisting of an MMG Det may please be provided to Manipur Police Training College, Pangei from your esteemed Troops of 57h Mountain Division”.
The letter added, “A Training Schedule of 21(twenty-one) days has been proposed starting from 9th September 2024. Accommodation for the Training Team has been arranged at MPTC, Pangei. It is requested that the Training Team may please be made available before 7 th September 2024 at MPTC, Pangei.”
Over the last three days, at least four such cases have been reported in which two people have died and several injured. With Manipur facing attacks from drones equipped with explosives, Director General of Police Rajiv Singh said a committee is formed of
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