TN Police: Manglore: Mangalore City Police के लिए खुशखबरी, सरकार ने 332 पदों को मंजूरी दी..

MANGALORE: Policing in the youngest unit in the state, Mangalore City Police, will get more compact with internal reorganization as the government has granted sanction for 332 posts. The internal shuffle would see the creation of a new sub-division in Mangalore City South, renaming of Mangalore sub-division as Mangalore central sub-division and Panambur sub-division as Mangalore North sub-division. The existing Mangalore and Panambur sub-divisions are headed by assistant commissioners of police (ACP). The city police will utilise the sanctioned post of ACP (headquarters) as ACP of Mangalore City South division till they get a sanction for this post. At the same time, the city will also get an ACP for traffic, who would head two traffic police stations in traffic east and west and north and south police stations that have been proposed.

What is particularly noteworthy about this sanction, said Seemanth Kumar Singh, city police chief is that 100 of them would be police constables. The induction of the constables, Seemanth said, would bring about a much-needed impetus to the more demanding needs of city policing and also reduce the workload on existing police constables. The city police would also get six police inspectors and eight PSIs as per the new sanction. The sanction will not entail a financial implication for the government as the posts have been reappropriated from different parts of the state, Seemanth told TOI here on Wednesday. "This will also go a long way in addressing the staff shortage that we face on the clerical side and beef up our magisterial section. The latter section plays an important role in a police set-up that confers magisterial powers on the police commissioner," Seemanth noted. Another advantage of the internal reorganization planned, he said, is that each of the ACPs would have supervision work of a maximum of five police stations. Mangalore city South ACP would deal with Mangalore Rural, Ullal, Konaje and South PS, Mangalore City Central ACP with North, Gandhinagar, East, Urwa and Womens PS and Mangalore City North ACP with Kavoor, Bajpe, Panambur, Mulki and Moodbidri police stations. The ACP (traffic) would initially take care of two traffic police stations and two more once the newly proposed police stations come through, he said. This would only partially fulfil staffing needs of Mangalore city police which presently has nearly 750 police personnel of various ranks. Initial proposals were sent to add a further 805 policemen with separate proposals for wireless, city armed reserve and magisterial staff. These are being sanctioned in phases.