Graft: Intelligence section staff of seven police stations transferred

Coimbatore: Following corruption allegations, city police commissioner S Davidson Devasirvatham has transferred all the staff members of the intelligence section of Big Bazaar, RS Puram, Podanur, Kuniyamuthur, Singanallur, Peelamedu and Race Course police stations to the armed reserve police. The transfer order was issued last month.
“There was a lot of confusion between regular intelligence section staff and station intelligence section staff. There should be only one intelligence section (IS) functioning under the city police commissioner. Hence, we are discussing dissolving the station IS staff system soon,” Davidson Devasirvatham said.
According to police sources, the city police commissioner held a meeting with deputy commissioner of police (law & order) G Stalin and assistant commissioner of police (IS) Ramesh Krishnan a few days ago on dissolving the station IS staff system.
“The station IS system should be dissolved immediately as its members are facing a lot of corruption charges,” a police officer said.
The city police have an intelligence section (IS) directly controlled by the city police commissioner. The role of the IS is to gather vital intelligence information across the city. They would convey the information to the police inspectors who in turn would pass it on to the assistant commissioner of police (IS) and city police commissioner.
The city police have 15 intelligence section (IS) officers for 15 police stations.