After a gap of 20 years, Chandigarh on Tuesday got five new police stations.
The five new police stations were inaugurated by five top officials of the UT Administration and UT Police.
Sarangpur Police station was inaugurated by Vijay Kumar Dev, Advisor to the Administrator, Mauli Jagran by R P Upadhyay, IGP/UT, Maloya by Anurag Aggarwal, Home Secretary/UT, Police Station Sector 49 by AS Cheema, DIGP/UT and IT Park was innaugurated by Sukhchain Singh Gill, SSP.
The setting up of of new police stations was necessitated due to increase of the population in the last two decades. The last police station was at Industrial Area which was set up in 1995.
Addressing the local gathering at the opening ceremony of new police station at Mauli Jagran, Upadhyay said extra force, vehicles and infrastructure has been provided to all the police stations for the smooth functioning.
Vijay Kumar Dev congratulated police department for providing efficient police services to the residents of Chandigarh and also for establishing new police stations. He requested the general public to cooperate with the police and provide them information regarding any violation of law.