The Union home ministry’s special security advisor, K. Vijay Kumar, the director-general of CRPF, A.P. Maheshwari, and other senior officers held a security review at Dagra picket on Wednesday in Palamau with top cops of state police.

Commandant of 134 battalion of CRPF, Daltonganj, A.D. Sharma, who was one of the participants of the high-level meeting at Dagra picket, said: “The high-level security review led by Kumar, Maheshwari, special director-general of police, CRPF central zone, Calcutta, Kuldiep Singh and other senior officers was convened at Dagra following the declaration of poll schedules for the Assembly elections in Bihar.”

Sharma said the team of senior officials of the CRPF reached Dagra in a helicopter.

He added that the team had its first stop at Chakarbandha in Bihar, where the officers audited the security for the elections.

Sources said the arrival of Kumar and Maheshwari and their security review at Chakarbandha in Bihar and Dagra in Jharkhand’s Palamau were significant because of the Maoist threat of violence during the elections.

The sources said the officers highlighted the need for better coordination among the police forces of the two states and the CRPF battalions posted there, especially in the border areas.

A senior police officer from Jharkhand, who declined to be named, said: “The focus is to prevent Maoists from crossing over to Bihar, and vice-versa, during the elections.”

Palamau has three highly strategic forward security posts at Dagra, Kooh Kooh Kalan and Chak.

Sharma said that apart from attending the security review, the senior officers also met the CRPF personnel posted at Dagra. The picket here is under the 134 battalion of the paramilitary force.

Kumar, Maheshwari and the other officers had their meals with the jawans, Sharma said.

The kin of martyred jawans were felicitated by Maheshwari.