BELAGAVI: “I’m ready to take on the responsibility as chief minister if the high command so wishes,” said home minister G Parameshwara here on Saturday.He was speaking to mediapersons after attending the attestation parade of 362 newly recruited men and women constables of reserve police who completed the nine-month training programme.Parameshwara said he has long experience of being a KPCC president and is fit to take on responsibility of any post when asked about projecting minister DK Shivakumar as the next CM candidate in the Congress.Addressing new recruits, he said cybercrimes are an increasing threat. In this context, police officers are being trained about cybercrime and a college of cybercrime prevention is being set up in Bengaluru in association with Infosys, he said. He added that for the first time in the country, cybercrime police station and cyber technology unit has been established in Bengaluru.He said 23,000 police personnel were recruited last year and 4,000 more will be recruited this year. There is a plan of recruiting 20,000 police personnel in the next five years. Under the Police Gruha Yojane, government plans to allot 1.06 lakh houses to police personnel.He praised the services of DG & IGP Neelamani Raju saying she is a model for the department. MLAs Anjali Nimbalkar, Shrimant Patil, KSRP ADGP Bhaskar Rao, city police commissioner DC Rajappa, SP Sudheerkumar Reddy were present at the occasion.

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