The Noida Police on Tuesday got a shot in the arm with the State Government approving multitude of infrastructural amenities for the city. A unified control room for Noida and Greater Noida, five new police stations, five new fire stations, a cyber police station with a dedicated lab and a forensic science lab are major attractions of the bonanza announced by the UP Government. Of these new police stations, one will be separately for Yamuna Expressway with a dedicated police zone consisting of Additional SP, DSPs and other policemen for the entire 175 kilometre carriageway between Greater Noida and Agra.
In addition to this, focus has also been laid on traffic management in the region by doubling the manpower and infrastructure of Noida Traffic Police. One traffic inspector, 15 traffic sub-inspectors, 100 traffic constables and 439 traffic men will also be appointed for smooth flow of traffic. This apart, a number of towaway vehicles will be augmented to 23 from seven, two new vehicles, 50 breath analysers and other articles will also be purchased for this purpose. A separate traffic headquarters will be constructed which will be connected with intelligent traffic management system. A parking lot will also be constructed for towed away vehicles and system of e-challan will also be implemented from the proposed centre.
Two police stations will come up in Phase-III and Sector 128 in Noida and three in Ecotech-I, III and Knowledge Park in Greater Noida region. One inspector, four SIs, 19 SSIs and 79 other policemen will also be appointed separately in each police station. Fire stations will be set up in campuses of proposed police stations with 63 staffers in each station. Fire equipment of more than Rs20 crore will also be purchased for these fire stations. As far as cyber police station is concerned, one Additional SP, two DSPs, six IT experts and 36 other will be deputed. Forensic science lab will have a deputy director and its team of forensic experts. The unified control room with 207 new vehicles will come up in Sector 14-A and monitoring of border areas will be done by CCTV surveillance. Presently there are two control rooms located in Noida and Surajpur.
Announcing the approval of the UP Cabinet, Rama Raman, Chairman of all three authorities of Gautam Buddh Nagar district, said that the authorities have initiated the paperwork. “As the Government has given the go-ahead, we have ordered the concerned departments for implementing the order. If things go well, the proposed facilities will be available in two to three months,” said Raman in a media briefing.