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200 acres allotted for IR Battalion

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VIZIANAGARAM: The State has allotted 200 acres of land at Anandapuram, a mandal headquarters village, in Visakhapatnam district for the proposed India Reserve (IR) Battalion. Orders to this effect have already been issued and 120 acres will be given possession of to the battalion, Additional Director-General of Police (Battalions) S.K. Jayachandra said here on Saturday.

Talking to correspondents, Mr. Jayachandra said that the Centre had sanctioned two battalions, the 16th battalion in Visakhapatnam and the 17th in Karimnagar district. These were in addition to the existing 15 APSP battalions in the State. The government had issued a GO for recruitment and the process would be completed by this year-end, he said.

Mr. Jayachandra said that extensive training was being given to the new recruits, besides creating awareness on rules. He said that a policy to use non-lethal weapons like rubber bullets, teargas, water cannons among others, was adopted recently.

Twenty SWAT platoons had been constituted and trained in crowd control, he added. Earlier, the Additional DGP inaugurated a lecture hall and a dining hall and laid the stone for a guest house at Chintalavalasa in Denkada mandal and addressed 300-odd trainee constables.

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