Urban district at Guntur soon

GUNTUR, Dec. 2: Guntur will get urban police district soon. The government is ready to give permission, if 50 acres of land is available for the construction of urban superintendent of police office, other offices and police quarters.

The home minister, Ms Sabita Indra Reddy, promised if the land is available, she would give permission for the formation of urban police district.

The director general of police R.R. Girish Kumar also assured if land is available, Guntur will get urban police district.

The police officials already requested the revenue officials to allot 50 acres of land, but vacant land is not available. Though 15 acres of vacant land is available in police quarters, that is not enough to construct the DPO and officers’ quarters.

The city is expanding and the greater Guntur is on cards. The GMC is merging 20 surrounding villages into corporation for a greater Guntur. At present there are 11 engineering colleges in the district, and more new engineering colleges are coming up in the district.

If this proposal is translated into action, city will get one SP, an additional SP, OSD, 3 DSPS, 6 CIs and 10 SI posts in addition to the existing staff. Duggirala, Sattenapalli police stations would be merged into Guntur urban police district. There is a need to open police training college here.

The superintendent of police Mr Sankhabrata Bagchi said, “I already wrote a letter to the district collector, Mr B. Ramanjaneyulu, for allotment of land, if land is available the government would give permission for the formation of the urban police district”.