Bifurcation of city police stations to affix responsibility
The state government is considering a proposal to bifurcate police stations in Ahmedabad city into two, clearly demarcating the jurisdiction and areas in an effort to monitor each area.

Minister of state for home Amit Shah said here on Monday that the proposal is a departure from the present system to have two police inspectors in each police station in the city and instead affix responsibility for each area to one police inspector.

The city presently has 30 police stations apart from one women’s police station and the city crime branch. Each police station has two police inspectors except the Sola police station and the women’s police station that has one police inspector each.

"The present system of two police inspectors for each police station created confusion in affixing responsibility for crimes committed in areas under their purview. It has therefore been decided to demarcate it into two police stations giving equal responsibility to each official," Mr Shah said.

However, he admitted that the two police inspectors concept had been adopted, considering the fact that one inspector was constantly engaged in visiting the courts, leaving the police station without a person in-charge. He said, with the demarcation of areas and duties the task of controlling crime within the area will be simplified relatively and will be done on the basis of population and geographical area.

He said the home department will either give new names to the police stations or may just divide it into section I and II.

The state government is considering proposal to double the number of police stations in Ahmedabad city by demarcating area under each police station.

Meanwhile, Mr Shah said the home department has already promoted 60 police inspectors to the rank of DySP whereas the process of promoting 60 PSIs to the rank of PIs is in the pipeline.

Republished from The Asian Age