NEW DELHI: Delhi Commissioner of Police Alok Kumar Verma has sent a proposal to Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung to create two new police districts in the capital. If approved, with Rohini and Shahdara, the total police districts in the city will be 13.
The move was necessitated after rise in crime from the two areas were reported. The new units have also been proposed for “better supervision and equitable distribution of works.”
As per proposal, Rohini district will have three sub-divisions—Rohini, Sultanpuri and Punjabi Bagh. The district will comprise of nine existing police stations and eventually new police stations will be made. The Rohini district will be carved out of Outer and West police districts. Similarly, Shahdara police district will have three sub-divisions—Shahdara, Preet Vihar and Seemapuri. It will be carved out from East and North East police districts.
“In Delhi, police and revenue districts are different and there is a lot of confusion over it. The idea is end the confusion and also share the workload in each districts to ease government functioning,” an officer said.
Apart from the existing police stations, the new districts will be allotted 150 policemen each. One post of Deputy Commissioner of Police and one of Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police for each new district have been proposed. Sources said that the two districts will be notified by next month.
There was also a proposal of making another new district of Dwarka with ten police station. But due to lack of manpower the proposal was not sent to Lieutenant Governor.
Meanwhile, the AAP government is looking at decentralising the public administrative districts in order to strengthen the local governance.
The Department of Revenue has formed a four-member committee headed by Deputy Commissioner Niharika Rai to finalise Delhi District Administrative Bill 2010. “The purpose of the Bill is to strengthen and promote the local government system to decentralise public administration, to provide uniform local administrative units and to secure effective and lawful execution of Acts and rules,” a senior IAS officer said.
At present, there are 11 police districts—Central, East, New Delhi, North East, North West, North, South East, South West, South, West, Outer.