Bhangar to come under Calcutta police when CM will inaugurate four police stations
Telegraph | 2 January 2024
Bhangar will come under Calcutta police on Tuesday when chief minister Mamata Banerjee is scheduled to inaugurate four police stations.
These police stations — Chandaneswar, Bhangar, Polerhat and Uttar Kashipur — will comprise the 10th division of Calcutta police and will be under a deputy commissioner of police.
Bhangar and Kashipur police stations are now part of the Baruipur Police Commissionerate.
“The chief minister is scheduled to inaugurate the four police stations virtually on Tuesday,” a senior officer at the Calcutta police headquarters in Lalbazar said on Sunday.
Separate teams of police personnel carrying walkie-talkies, arms and ammunition reached Bhangar on Saturday.
On Sunday, Calcutta police commissioner Vineet Kumar Goyal reached Bhangar to take stock of the last-minute preparations before the inauguration. A double-storeyed building has come up to house the new Uttar Kashipur police station.
Senior officers said area patrolling will begin immediately after the police stations start functioning.
“Police personnel have been drawn from various divisions and battalions for the four police stations. The jurisdiction of each of the police stations has been earmarked. The officers in charge of the police stations and their deputies have been selected,” a senior officer at Lalbazar said.
Mamata proposed to Goyal at an informal get-together with senior police officers in July that the trouble-torn Bhangar be brought under Calcutta police.
The panchayat polls had just ended and Bhangar was on the boil with continuous reports of bombing and political clashes.
A week and a half after Mamata mooted the proposal, a team of senior officers from Calcutta police scanned the two blocks of Bhangar — I and II — to draw up a report on how the area could be brought under the city police. Guidelines of the Bureau of Police Research of Development were followed in the process.