<b>Story in numbers:</b> What the Uttar Pradesh Police needs

The state needs police modernisation badly and needs to inject revenue to pay for this

Much of the discourse in the election just past, especially in Uttar Pradesh, was about law and order: How the Uttar Pradesh Police was inefficient, how it operated below par and acted only when it wanted to or when it was ordered to. Added to this was the charge of politicisation of the force.
 
One of Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav’s pet projects was modernisation of the police force, beginning with the way crime is reported. He launched a UP-100 system of emergency management in November 2016. The UP-100 service is a central contact centre, based in Lucknow to facilitate