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200 police stations to get own building

Staff Reporter

30 of these structures will be completed in current fiscal: DGP

— Photo: K. Ananthan

AUGUST BEGINNING: Director-General of Police K.P. Jain (left), inaugurating the new building of Ukkadam police station in Coimbatore on Sunday.

Coimbatore: Nearly 200 police stations across the State will get own buildings in the next three to four years, Director-General of Police K.P. Jain said here on Sunday.

He was inaugurating a 3,259 sq ft, three-floor building of the Ukkadam police station. Mr. Jain told reporters later that Tamil Nadu was far ahead of other States in providing houses to police personnel.

As many as 22,000 houses were provided in the last 26 years.

During the current fiscal, work on 30 police station buildings would be completed. Identification of land in an appropriate and proper location within the jurisdiction for constructing buildings was a major problem, he said.

Vacancies

Asked about vacancies in the police force, Mr. Jain said the force with 1.02 lakh personnel had 15 per cent vacancies. The recent government order empowering the DGP to go ahead with recruitment without seeking ratification every time had enabled the department to prepare a calendar for recruitment on a regular basis. By end of this year, 3,800 constables and 700 Sub-Inspectors would report for duty after training. In the next three years, pressure of vacancies would ease substantially.

Naxal menace

On naxal menace, Mr. Jain said the arrested naxalites had admitted that their attempts to gain roots in Dindigul and Theni districts were spoiled by timely intervention by the police.

Asked about the road map for training the force, especially in the wake of growing complexities in policing such as serial explosions in Ahmedabad and Bangalore and nabbing of an extremist at Tirunelveli, Mr. Jain said training was a continuous process. After careful appraisal, training modules were being updated.

Officers were regularly sent for training and Tamil Nadu was training personnel from other States.

Asked about the original proposal for cyber crime cells for all police Commissionerates (now only in Chennai, Coimbatore city and CB-CID have cyber crime cells), Mr. Jain said city crime branches and district crime branches could investigate cyber crime complaints. If required head quarters would render expertise. If the complaints were on the rise, then separate cyber crime cells would be sanctioned.

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