Shillong, July 18: Law Minister Ampareen Lyngdoh on Tuesday said the state police have to rise and take firm decisions to ensure safety and security of all citizens as even MLAs are no longer safe.

“Even MLAs are no longer safe. I think we all know that. We have seen so many MLAs and their homes being attacked in the last four months. So, police will have to rise and take firm decisions,” Lyngdoh, whose house was also attacked recently when a 46-year-old man pelted stones as he threatened to kill, told reporters.

“MLAs, administrators, police force will all have to speak the same language otherwise it is going to go very wrong. Set things in order, restore the sense of security as it is a very important component of life,” she said while adding “I am sure the deputy chief minister in-charge home is on the job and the police are also rising to that necessity and I feel that be as it may, we have to start putting things in order.”

The minister also stressed on the need to firmly deal with the usages of the social media forums and said “We have to deal firmly with crossing of lines, we need to sit and discuss as to whether or not we need to legislate more laws to prevent communities going out of hands like this.”

“And not everybody is a bad person but it is just that there are certain negative elements, we have to start working on how best we put them in order and discipline people otherwise this lawlessness will prevail and there will be this sense that it is not under wraps and under check and you can’t say that the government is not doing anything,” she added.

Commenting on the recent arrest of 15 sex workers, Lyngdoh said sex work has become a big business for women.

“But I feel that you need to verify all of this information first and police are now engaging actively to ensure that there is no hanging out or hanging around of individuals at public spaces especially if you know it is very late in the night. Anything that will put anyone in any harm, we have to be vigilant, we have to be alert and I think police are doing the right thing and we need to have several other factors to first verify before you can consider everyone standing on the road as a sex worker because that is also incorrect. We must have some parameters, we must have some specific indicators that suggest such,” she said.

On further referring to the police decision to intensify checking in the state capital, Lyngdoh however said too much of policing is also not good but the lack of it also is not good.

“I think what we need right now is to request the public to start  themselves and if you want to have your fun like you do, if you want to be seen going out late hours at night then you have to act responsibly. I mean the moment police are involved in this kind of a vigilante then it becomes a problem, then you need to decide. It is a very tricky situation. Let us see what the results will be,” she added.

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