Meghalaya Government will soon create a Commissionerate of Police in Shillong.
Informing this chief Minister Conrad Sangma on Friday said, Shillong being the epicentre of Law and order problem in the state, the commissionerate is proposed as having only Superintendent of Police (City) is not sufficient.
“As you are aware Shillong is our capital and at the same time a lot of law and order situations happen in Shillong or the epicentre I should say most of the time is Shillong. Hence only having SP city may not be sufficient to ensure that we are able to give proper law and order in the city and the capital,” Sangma said while addressing the Distribution ceremony of appointment certificates to the New Recruits of Meghalaya Police.
“Like other capitals in other parts of the country have a commissionerate, we are proposing that a commissionerate should be here and we have discussed this and the Deputy CM is personally taking interest in this and very soon we will have a Commissionerate in Shillong,” the Chief Minister added.
Calling this as part of the major reformation in the police department, the CM informed that with the creation of a commissionerate, senior officers will be heading that.
Talking to reporters, Sangma elaborated, “So once a commissioner comes here, that means no one there will be a senior official who will be heading that commissioner level and of course there will be many more staff and team under him or her and that way we will be having much more better structure, better team here in Shillong city to maintain law and order.”
“This will also mean increase in manpower, increase in infrastructure, increase in everything that a commissionerate should have. We are working on it very swiftly. we are hopeful that very soon this process will be complete,” he added.
Meanwhile, Deputy Chief Minister in charge of Home (Police) Prestone Tynsong said the idea of coming up with a commissionerate was conceived a long time back.
“The DGP is working out the details and will come to my department; we will then sit down along with the planning, finance, and personnel departments to discuss the creation of posts. We will try within six to seven months,” Tynsong informed.