New Delhi, Sep 2 - The government has announced the setting up of one State Security Commission for all union territories amid a slew of other decisions aimed at streamlining police functioning.

The announcement by union Home Minister P. Chidambaram Tuesday comes nearly three years after the Supreme Court's September 2006 direction to the union and state governments to take steps on the issue of police reforms.

This included the establishment of a State Security Commission that would lay down the broad policies regarding policing and evaluate the performance of the police force in union territories and states.

Chidambaram also announced the government's decision to set up two Police Establishment Boards (PEB) in each union territory, one for inspectors and above and the other for sub-inspectors and below.

The PEBs would decide all transfers, postings, promotions and all service related matters, said the home minister, adding that the government had also decided to set up a Police Complaints Authority in each union territory.

The government, he added, would accord fixed two-year tenures to all key police functionaries.