Lucknow: Senior IPS officers Sujit Pandey and Alok Singh will be the first police commissioners of Lucknow and Noida respectively, a UP government spokesperson said on Monday.
Besides them, Inspector General (IG) Naveen Arora and IG Nilabja Chaudhary will be the joint police commissioners of Lucknow and Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Akhilesh Kumar and DIG Sriparna Ganguli will be additional police commissioners of Noida, he said.
The government has also transferred six other IPS officers, posting Jai Narain Singh as Additional Director General of Police (ADG) of Kanpur zone, Prem Prakash as ADG of Allahabad, Pravin Kumar as IG of Meerut and Lav Kumar as DIG of Gorakhpur.
The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting chaired by the chief minister.
Talking to reporters after the meeting, Adityanath said state capital Lucknow and economic capital of the state Noida will have an ADG-level officer as police commissioner. Both police commissioners will have magisterial powers.
The system gives more powers, including magisterial powers, to police officers and is aimed at better and effective policing.
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Under the new system 40 police stations in Lucknow will be brought under the police commissioner who will have a team of two IGs as joint commissioners, nine SP-rank officials and a lady officer of SP rank along with a lady officer of ASP rank, the CM said.
The lady officers will work exclusively for cases relating to crime against women and its control.
In Noida, under the ADG rank official as commissioner, there will be two DIGs, five SPs, a SP-rank lady officer and an ASP rank official for traffic control.
“Since the past 50 years, there was a demand to enforce the police commissionerate system for smart policing and today the cabinet has taken a decision in this regard,” the CM said.
“It was being considered since the past sometime that this system should be used for the urban population but it was ignored because of lack of political will power. I am happy that it has been approved for implementation in these two important areas,” the chief minister said.
As per the 2011 census, Lucknow had a population of around 29 lakh which today has reached 40 lakhs while that of Gautambudh Nagar (Noida) was 16 lakhs and today is 25 lakh, the chief minister said.
The cabinet has also approved setting up two new police stations in Noida, he said.
Besides, a network of CCTVs will also be set by in these two districts, he said.
To a question if other major cities will also have the police commissionerate system, the CM said whatever steps are needed for better law and order will be taken.
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