ahmedabad Commissioner office shifting

CP office address changing
Dilip Patel

Police commissioner’s office address will soon change as soon as the new premises are being surveyed. This will shift to the eastern part of the city when the industry department accepts the proposal of the home ministry.
The four sites that have been finalised include: Rakhial, Bapunagar, Asarva and Saraspur. The department will soon take its decision, says home secretary T S Bisht. He adds, "The current headquarters of the Commissioner of Police (CP) which is near Shahibagh underpass is small which is why we are looking for a new location." He added, "We have decided that one of these sites will finalised for the new office."
The new building will be more than 50 acres of land. The current office covers an area of half square kilometer. The three floor building has very few facilities with no lift. Adjacent to it is the police stadium where the police does their rehearsals and training. But this is not enough for the sessions. The current office is a bungalow which was owned by a Parsi family till 1961. After this, the police department filed a case in the court. They won the case as there were some technical problems in the heirship of the bungalow and they had taken it on rent.
The working atmosphere needed at the international levels require that the police should be residing within the headquarters. The new building will give such residential facilities as well. According to these standards, a training centre will be built, all facilities for parade and police rehearsals will be taken care of in the new building.
The area of work of the commissioner of police is also growing. The Sardar Patel ring road which is also developing will soon come under the jurisdication of the CP. Sarkhej police station which is currently under rural Ahmedabad will also be included in Ahmedabad city which will increas the work area of the commissioner.
Plans are in progress to develop Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation. There are plans to include it under the Ahmedabad city police. But there is not enough population to have another CP in Gandhinagar so that shall also be taken under the jurisdication of the Ahmedabad CP. Ahmedabad will then have two police commissioners just as Mumbai city which has three police commissioners.