To make the police citizen-friendly, the city police have opened reception rooms in the premises of two of its police stations. Town police station and Bada Bazar police station, which were inaugurated by DIG Amitav Thakur and SP Anirudh Singh on Wednesday.
Thakur said similar reception rooms would be opened in each other police station in the days ahead so that the public coming there to file complaints would feel homely and take advantage of the provisions of drinking water, seating space and toilets.
While the reception room of the Town police station was built at a cost of Rs 9.99 lakh, that of the Bada Bazar police station was constructed at a cost of Rs 11.63 lakhs, said Deputy Manager of Odisha Police Housing Development Corporation KS Paikray.