The long-pending demand of the city police to bifurcate the Nallalam police station and form a new unit at Pantheerankavu was realised on Sunday as Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan opened the new police station through videoconferencing at Parappara near Pantheerankavu.
District panchayat president Babu Parassery chaired the inaugural event. M.K. Raghavan, MP, P.T.A. Rahim, MLA, District Police Chief (Kozhikode City) K. Sanjay Kumar Gurudin and Deputy Commissioner James Joseph were present.
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With this, the total number of police stations in Kozhikode city police limits reached 19. Olavanna, Kunnathupala, Mathara, Manakkadavu and Arappuzha regions would henceforth come under the jurisdiction of the Pantheerankavu police station. The police said all the wards in Perumanna grama panchayat and 17 wards in Olavanna grama panchayat would come under the jurisdiction of the Pantheerankavu station.
The temporary station building identified by the Olavanna panchayat authorities was renovated at a cost of ₹10 lakh sanctioned from the local development fund of Mr. Rahim. The new station was sanctioned by the government with a strength of 34 police officers, including a circle inspector and two sub inspectors.
The Pantheerankavu station was one of the six new police stations announced by the State government in the last budget with a total allocation of around ₹50 crore for the modernisation of the police force under various national schemes and to set up new stations.
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