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Mattancherry gets new police station

Staff Reporter

Fort Kochi's wait continues as GO goes missing

For the record: The Chief Minister, Oommen Chandy, at the new Police Station complex in Mattancherry on Tuesday. Photo: H. Vibhu

KOCHI: The State Government is committed to provide required infrastructure to the police force, the Chief Minister, Oommen Chandy, said here on Tuesday.

He was speaking after the inauguration of the new police station complex, which houses the offices of the Assistant Commissioner of Police (Mattancherry) and Circle Inspector, as well as the Mattancherry Police Station.

Under the State Government's new policy, it has been decided to construct fully equipped police stations across the State according to the availability of land, Mr. Chandy said.

He also urged the police force to earn the faith of the public. The Government believes that public faith, and not weapon, is the strength of its police force. A force that has credibility is the mission of the Government, Mr. Chandy said.

V.K. Ebrahim Kunju, Minister for Industries and Social Welfare, presided. R. Sreelekha, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Ernakulam Range; Dinendra Kashyap, City Police Commissioner; K.P. Lailaram, Assistant Commissioner of Police (Mattancherry); and K.M. Shahida, Kochi Corporation Councillor were present.

Earlier, there were objections against shifting the office of the Assistant Commissioner to the new complex citing lack of enough space.

Even though the new complex at Mattancherry was modelled along the lines of the new building at Fort Kochi, the latter houses only the police station and office of the Circle Inspector.

The police stations at Fort Kochi and Palluruthy are also ready. But the force could not move in, as these buildings were yet to be notified.

Notification of a new police station requires all the Government Orders (GO) issued in connection with it to be quoted. However, the first GO on police stations at Fort Kochi and Palluruthy are yet to be traced.

Even though the personnel had searched for the document among the records available at the station, Police Headquarters and the office of the City Police Commissioner, it was not available. Neither was it available at the Public Library, Thiruvananthapuram, and State Archives.

A policeman was sent to the regional archives in Kozhikode twice to search for the GO, but to no effect. Most probably, one person will be sent to Chennai for searching archives dating back to the British rule, said C.K. Uthaman, sub-inspector, Fort Kochi. Another option available is the City Police Commissioner writing to the Police Headquarters that the GO is untraceable and thus release the notification with available documents.

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