ATS to raise all-woman squad for spl ops

Lucknow: A special all-women police squad is set to come up in the state. The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (UP ATS) will raise the first-of-its-kind all-women squad called Special Police Operation Team (SPOT).
A specialised unit trained to tackle anti-hijacking and counter-insurgency operations like terror attacks, SPOT has a batch of commandos trained by expert trainers of BSF, CISF, ITBP and other paramilitary forces.
A senior officer at UP ATS said that a proposal has been sent to the government for approval and budgeting after discussion with home department officials. One unit would have 58 personnel including a dog squad, a bomb disposal squad and a wireless trapping unit.
The officer said that the idea was based on increasing representation of women at workplaces and their deployment at sensitive locations. Carrying out rescue operations and tackling women troublemakers would also be easier with this.
Recently, on the directions of chief minister Yogi Adityanath, for the first time, the process to raise three all-women battalions had also begun. ADG, law and order, Prashant Kumar said that a proposal has also been sent to the government to raise more units of SPOT in Varanasi, Agra, Kheri, and Shravasti.
IG, ATS, GK Goswamy said that SPOT would also perform security surveys in peacetime and train special weapons advanced tactics teams of district police.
SPOT is a specialised unit of ATS. The first unit raised in 2018 comprised men only. SPOT has an exclusive training centre in Sarojininagar.