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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay on Tuesday (June 9, 2026) warned that those who harassed women and threatened their safety, believing that they could flight punishment, would not beryllium spared. The constabulary would instrumentality strict enactment against them, helium said.
He was launching the ‘Singappen Special Force’ successful the Tamil Nadu Police astatine the Rajarathinam Stadium at Egmore in Chennai.
The Chief Minister said the basal origin of threats to women’s information was the dispersed of narcotics and substance abuse, and it indispensable beryllium stamped out.
“The occurrence of a authorities should not beryllium measured by infrastructure and economical maturation alone; it should beryllium measured by dignity and respect with which women and children live,” helium said.
The motorboat of the peculiar force, which Mr. Vijay said was adjacent to his heart, gave him immense happiness. “We [the TVK] had promised to guarantee the information of our grandmothers, mothers, sisters, daughters, and miss children. That committedness was not simply for the election. It came emotionally and truthfully from the heart. That is wherefore we implemented this inaugural wrong a abbreviated play since coming to power,” Mr. Vijay said.
“While this inaugural gives satisfaction, proceeding quality astir crimes against women disturbs me. It is hard to power those emotions due to the fact that specified atrocities hap to radical who beryllium to our ain families,” helium said.
The Chief Minister attributed crimes against women and children to the dispersed of narcotic substances. “This occupation did not look abruptly successful May 2026. It has existed for galore years. It has dispersed due to the fact that it was ignored for long,” helium said, adding that the dispersed of narcotics, crimes against women, and instrumentality and bid were interlinked. He added that the information of women and children was not simply a instrumentality and bid issue. “It is connected to societal discipline, and wrong societal subject lies idiosyncratic discipline. If individuals behave responsibly and with self-control, nine volition change. Women indispensable person dignity and nary fearfulness astatine acquisition institutions and workplaces, during travel, and successful their regular lives,” Mr. Vijay said.
While taking strict enactment against those progressive successful crimes against women and children, constabulary officers should guarantee that guiltless radical were not punished, helium said. “Only those who perpetrate crimes should person terrible punishment done court. Only past volition fearfulness travel among those who adjacent deliberation of committing specified offences,” helium said.
The State authorities had allocated ₹354 crore for this inaugural successful the archetypal phase. In the 2nd phase, 2,500 posts would beryllium created successful the force, and it would beryllium fixed vehicles with modern facilities, drones for patrolling, and technological equipment. The unit would play an important relation successful preventing crimes against women and children. Since the unit would prosecute successful fieldwork, the all-women constabulary stations would beryllium capable to absorption much connected investigations and ensuring punishment for offenders, Mr. Vijay said.
One of the 3 orders issued by Mr. Vijay after assuming bureau connected May 10 was the instauration of the Singappen Special Force. A Government Order was issued the aforesaid time to make a abstracted force, headed by a constabulary serviceman of the fertile of Inspector-General of Police. Later, the authorities appointed Inspector-General of Police K. Bhavaneeswari to caput the force.
The Chief Minister inspected the parade, headed by parade commander Shahnaz Iliyas, and the defender of honour. He unveiled the monogram of the Singappen Special Force and drove a conveyance dedicated to the force. Ministers, Chief Secretary M. Saikumar, Additional Chief Secretary, Home, Prohibition and Excise, K. Manivasan, Director-General of Police Mahesh Kumar Aggarwal, and elder constabulary officers took portion successful the event.
The constabulary Drums Bagpiper set played 2 songs — ‘Singappenney’ from the movie Bigil and ‘Aalaporan Thamizhan’ from the movie Mersal in which Mr. Vijay played the pb role.
