Varanasi: In the initial phase of commissionerate policing system, the police officers will exercise their power of executive magistrates from a single court though no decision was taken about the place to establish this courtroom on Wednesday.
After completing the process of re-designating officers in the new policing system, commissioner of police (CP) A Satish Ganesh on Wednesday intensified efforts for creating basic infrastructure like arranging offices for himself and subordinates. “The re-designation process of subordinates was completed till Tuesday night immediately after the arrival of formal approval of police headquarters in this regard,” he added.
The CP further said, “Now, major exercise is continuing to finalise offices and courtrooms as basic infrastructure for effective implementation of commissionerate policing system. In the initial phase, we have decided to establish only one courtroom where police officials of different ranks will exercise their power of executive magistrates on scheduled days and timings. We are expecting that this courtroom will come in the vicinity of police lines.”
Regarding offices of his subordinates, he said that the compound where the crime branch office is operating on DDU district hospital road, will be utilised as Varuna zone headquarters while the existing office of SP City will be used as Kashi zone headquarters.
The CP, who will operate from his camp office in Cantonment area, said that SP (Rural) office will be used by SP district police, which covers rural part of the district.
The CP said that the entire force in Varanasi commissionerate policing limits have been asked to continue regular policing like in the past in order to maintain law and order. “Required changes will be effected swiftly with each development like it has taken place so far,” he added.
Under the Varanasi commissionerate police system, the city has been divided into two zones — Kashi and Varuna. Apart from DCPs, each zone will also have additional DCPs. Three circles — Bhelupur, Kotwali and Dashaswamedh — will fall under Kashi zone jurisdiction while Cantt and Chetganj circles will be under Varuna zone.
Similarly, nine police stations, including Lanka, Bhelupur, Manduadih, Kotwali, Ramnagar, Adampur, Dashaswamedh, Chowk and Luxa are in Kashi zone. The Varuna zone will comprise Cantt, Lalpur-Pandeypur, Shivpur, Sarnath, Chetganj, Jaitpura and Sigra police stations.