The law and order and the district map of the national Capital will change this New Year as the Delhi Government has sanctioned to redraw the jurisdiction of the police districts of the city as well as a new and independent police district has been created as ‘Outer- North District’. Gaurav Sharma, IPS cadre of AGMUT 2009 who was holding the charges of Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) of th Rohini district will be the new DCP of the newly created district.
This district will come into existence after 8 newly police stations will be added into from the existing Rohini, North-West and Outer Districts. The city will get 15 newly created police station on the first day of New Year.
Till now, there were only 14 districts but now with the creation of this district, Delhi will have 15 police districts. Separate and independent zones and sub-divisions have also been created under these districts. The order was passed and notified by the Delhi Home Department in the name of Delhi Lieutenant Governor (LG), Anil Baijal on Monday to facilitate extension of better police assistance to the public of the National Capital.
The new 15 proposed districts under the six existing ranges of the city are: North-East, Shahdhara, East, South-East, South, Dwarka, West, Outer, Rohini, Outer-North, North, North-West, North, Central, New Delhi and North Districts.
The officials close to the re-designing of the districts said, “This is one of the major re-design, re-shuffle and reshaping of the city and also with creating new districts and revising the boundaries and jurisdiction the police stations will create more safety to the public and law and order will be maintained more than earlier.”
Further, with the re-designing the walls and boundaries of the city, a major reshuffle of various existing police stations have also been done under this order. Around seven police stations coming under the various districts has been created as the separate and independent police sub-divisions such as Bhajan Pura in North-East, Sangam Vihar in South, Swarup Nagar in Outer-North, TimarPur in North District, Prashant Vihar, Aman Vihar, Begum Pur in Rohini District.
Besides, this sub-divisons such as Ambdekar Nagar, Mundka, Alipur and Saraswati Vihar shall now be called Subdivisions Chitranjan Park in South district, Mangol Puri in outer district, Narela in Outer-North district and Subhash Place in North-West.
Apart from this, the existing sub-division Safdurjung Enclave of South District will now be shifted to South-West district. “The existing police stations Shakarpur will now be known as Laxmi Nagar on account of administrative convenience and a new police stations in the name of Shakarpur having separate boundaries will come into existence,” stated the circular, a copy of which is with the possession of The Pioneer.
After renaming of earlier Shakar Pur as PS Laxmi Nagar, Shastri Park, Dayalpur, Patpar Ganj Industrial area, Shakarpur, Shaheen Bagh, Kalindi Kunj, Tigri, Maidan Garhi, Mohan Garden, Raj Park, Premagar, Budh Vihar, Narela Indutrial area, Wazirabad and Kishan Garh has been converted as separarte police stations.
Also, the areas such as Subramaniam Bharti Marge from Archbishop crossing (Inclusive to Zoo red light (excluding) Zakir Hussain Road from SB Marg to mid of Oberoi flyover, Kaka Nagar, Oberoi Hotel, Delhi Golf Clubm, Blind School which currently comes under the police station Hazrat Nizamuddin will now included in the jurisdiction of Tuglak Road police station.
Moreover, the boundaries/jurisdiction of total 51 police stations will be revised.