Chief minister to inaugurate Tambaram, Avadi police commissionerates on Jan 1

Chief minister to inaugurate Tambaram, Avadi police commissionerates on Jan 1

Selvaraj.A@timesgroup.com

Chennai:25.12.2021

Chief minister M K Stalin will inaugurate newly created Tambaram and Avadi commisssionerates on January 1.

The commissionerates are finalised after several rounds of discussions with a high-level committee comprising senior police officers including DGP C Sylendra Babu, chief secretary, home secretary, finance secretary.

As per the tentatively finalised structure, each commissioner will be in the rank of additional director-general of police (ADGP). Apart from him, two joint commissioners of police (JCoPs), and five deputy commissioners of police (DCPs) will also be there.

Each commissionerate will have two police districts within its jurisdiction. For instance, Tambaram commissionerate will have Pallikaranai and Tambaram police districts headed by DCPs. The armed reserve and motor transport will have a DCP, central crime branch will have a separate DCP, and the city intelligence unit will be manned by one DCP. Likewise, in Avadi commissionerate, Red Hills and Avadi will be have separate DCPs. There will also be three other DCPs for armed reserve wing and motor transport, central crime branch (CCB), and city intelligence unit.

In the two commissionerates, there will be at least nine new police stations and six new sub-divisions.

The Tambaram commissionerate is set up at a fourstorey private building near the Sholinganallur traffic junction. Special officercum-commissioner of police M Ravi has identified a fiveacre government land near Outer Ring Road (ORR) near Tambaram. The new building for the commissionerate will come up there soon.

The Avadi commissionerate is set up at a four-storey building belonging to the state disaster rescue force opposite near Avadi bus terminus. Special officer-cumcommissioner of police Sandeep Rai Rathore has also identified another piece of government land closer to the ORR to build a permanent structure for the commissionerate.

On September 13, Stalin in the state assembly announced two new commissionerates would be created. Later on October 1, the government issued a separate order notifying M Ravi as the special officer for the Tambaram commissionerate and Sandeep Rai Rathore as the special officer for the Avadi commissionerate.