As new DCP post for city awaits final nod, IT hubs will soon come under it fold

As new DCP post for city awaits final nod, IT hubs will soon come under it fold
New Indian Express

BANGALORE: The State Government will soon create one more post of Deputy Commissioner of Police to supervise law and order with the City bursting at its seams and pressures on police increasing.

Department, the post of Deputy Commissioner (South-East) will be carved out of South and East Bangalore and Bangalore Rural District. The result: the IT hubs of Electronics City and ITPL will now come under the Bangalore CityPolice along with far-flung areas like Varthur and Kadugodi.

``The proposal is in the final stages. It has been sent to the Finance Department for final approval,'' Principal Secretary, Home and Transport, Brahm Dutt, told this website’s newspaper. The post will cost the State an annual Rs 12.5crore. ``We will have to spend a similar amount for developing infrastructure,'' Dutt said, adding that the proposal has already been cleared by the Chief Minister.

While the proposal has been pending for over two years, the police have completed the reorganising of jurisdictions of police stations lying on the outskirts. The basic premise for creating a new post was that places once considered rural have now become urban centres, but what has necessitated this move is the duplication of police duties whenever visiting foreign heads-of-state travel to the IT hubs.

As of now, the city police provide security till their borders and then the rural police take over, an exercise, which is a waste of manpower.

Apart from this, officers say that there is a homogeneity in the nature of crimes reported in the border stations.

Just a decade ago, the City had only two DCPs, looking after eastern and western parts of the City but the number came to be increased in the subsequent years with the unprecedented growth of the City in the recent years. When the new post is sanctioned, the city will have a total of six DCP's in charge of law and order in the East, West, North, South, Central and South-East divisions.