Two more Chandigarh police subdivisions created

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 17

The UT Administration has created two new police subdivisions taking the number of subdivisions to five. The two new subdivisions will be called South-West and North-East. These will have a DSP/ASP as a supervisory officer.

With two additional supervisory officers, the residents can expect better policing in the city. The jurisdictions of 16 police stations, which earlier were divided into three subdivisions, namely Central, South and East, will now be divided into five subdivisions. The orders were issued today by UT Home Secretary Nitin Kumar Yadav.

As per the orders, police stations of Sector 36, 39 and Maloya will be under South-West sub-division, while those of Sector 31, 34 and 49 will be under South sub-division.

Similarly, the police stations of Mani Majra, IT Park and Mauli Jagran would fall under the jurisdiction of North-East subdivision, while those of Sector 26, 19 and Industrial Area would be under East sub-division.

The police stations that fall under Central sub-division remain the same. The police stations of Sector 17, 11, 3 and Sarangpur falls under this subdivision.