Kalaburagi to get commissionerate office
The Kalaburagi Police Commissionerate will function out of the old IGP office until its gets its own building .ARUN KULKARNIARUN KULKARNI
Home Minister M.B. Patil is likely to inaugurate it on February 22
The much-awaited Kalaburagi Police Commissionerate office is likely to become a reality soon as the State government has decided to set it up by the end of February.
Inspector General of Police (North East Range) Manish Kharbikar told
The Hindu that the Home Department issued a formal gazette notification in October 2018 in this regard.
Till a new office is constructed, the commissionerate will function out of the old IGP office building.
Home Minister M.B. Patil will inaugurate the commissionerate office tentatively on February 22.
Mr. Kharbikar said that the commissionerate office will be formed by merging 10 police stations in the city jurisdiction, and three police stations outside, including Gulbarga University, Farahatabad and rural police station.
The office will have 14 new police stations with four sub-division offices. It will also have 3 ACP zone offices and the office of the Police Commissioner.
The new Commissionerate will have one Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police, two Deputy Commissioners of Police (each for Civil and City Armed Reserve ), and three Assistant Commissioners of Police (ACP).
The office of the Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) will be upgraded to the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) and the office of Superintendent of Police (SP) will be designated as Deputy Commissioner of police (DCP) with the commissionerate police system
The new commissionerate will require 1,613 posts and Mr. Kharbikar said the government has accorded approval for the creation of 726 new ones.
He said the project will cost an estimated Rs. 170.6 crore, which will include construction of the new buildings, manpower, infrastructure, and vehicles.
The notification also stated that the expenditure required for running the new commissionerate from the old IGP office building has also been sanctioned. A sum of Rs. 1.5 crore has been released for the renovation work at the old building.
The government has allocated Rs. 153.69 crore for the new building of the Commissionerate building near the supermarket locality in the heart of the city.
A patch of land, measuring 2.29 acres, has been identified. “It was necessary to strengthen the force with the rapidly growing population in the district and the decision to set up a commissionerate makes sense,” the officer added.
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