Mumbai:
The 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai exposed how ill-trained and ill equipped the Mumbai Police was and how they lacked firing practice.
But more than a year after the attacks, nothing seems to have changed. NDTV brings you this exclusive report.
Top officials of the Mumbai Police and the Maharashtra government made many promises that their men would be better trained and better equipped.
But only a third of the police force managed to get any target practice in 2009 and those that did fired only 19 bullets.
This is marginally better than in 2008, the year of India's worst ever terror attack on Mumbai, when 20 per cent of the force got target practice, with each of those firing on an average just 12 bullets.
Even the Ram Pradhan Committee, in its report, had observed the Mumbai Police's lack of practice, along with the then even more serious lack of arms and ammunition.
"Availability of arms and ammunition for Maharashtra Police is a serious problem. The QRT could not do any firing since September 2007 due to shortage of ammunition. They are to do firing practice every 4th day. The Mumbai Police has an acute shortage of automatic weapons and ammunitions," the report said.
''There is inefficiency on the part of the senior officer who don't show interest. The people who take care of the process are clerks who aren't aware," says Y P Singh, a former IPS officer.
The alarming figures clearly indicate that Mumbai Police has still not learnt their lessons.