Kolkata, Nov 15 (PTI) The Mamata Banerjee governmenthas decided to set up two new police commissionerates in Westand East Midnapore districts.
The proposed two new police commissionerates will beset up in Kharagpur in West Midnapore district and Haldia inEast Midnapore district, a senior official at the state Homedepartment said today.
"This is a proposal which will soon take shape. Wehave already started working on it. The two policecommissionerates will be at Haldia and Kharagpur," theofficer told PTI.
With the introduction of two new commissionerates, thenumber of police commissionerates in the state will be eight.
Incidentally, six new police commissionerates were setup in West Bengal after Trinamool Congress came in power.
The six new police commissionerates are Howrah,Asansol-Durgapur, Bidhannagar, Barrackpore, Siliguri andChandannagar, which was the last police commissionerate set upby state government in Hooghly district.
The Asansol-Durgapur Police Commissionerate with 20police stations under its jurisdiction, is the largestfollowed by Barrackpore (12), Chandannagar (10), Bidhannagar(9), Howrah (8) and Siliguri (5). PTI SCHRG.
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