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BIA yet to get a police station

CHICKABALLAPUR: Inordinate delay in setting up a full-fledged police station at Bengaluru International Airport (BIA) has caused inconvenience to passengers as well as policemen working at the airport.

Although it has been 20 months since the airport commenced commercial operations, the BIA police station still functions from a small building in Devanahalli town, 13 km from the airport.

As there is no facility to register cases at the police outpost at the airport, passengers who lose mobile phones and other articles have to travel 13 km to the police station at Devanahalli to lodge at a complaint.

Sources in the police told The Hindu on Friday that most of the departing passengers, who lose mobile phones, laptops and gold ornaments, do not file complaints as they would be in a hurry to board the flight and they hardly had time to visit the police station.

In some cases, on reaching their destination, the passengers have sent their complaints to the police station by post. The chances of passengers getting back their valuables were less if they failed to or delayed lodging complaints, the sources said.

The policemen working at the BIA police station have still not been provided even the basic facilities required for discharging their duties effectively.

The police outpost at the airport is housed in 6 foot x 8 foot cabin, which can hardly accommodate two persons.

In the changed security scenario, there is an immediate need to have a full-fledged police station at the airport, where weapons and other equipment could be stored, the sources said.

People arrested or detained by Immigration and Customs officials for various violations, including drug trafficking, are handed over to the police. However, the police have no facility at the airport to lodge such people and interrogate them.

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