Chennai: Construction work of Chitlapakkam Police Station is almost completed and it will be ready soon.
According to sources, the State government granted administrative and financial sanction for the construction of the new multiplex police station in 2017 following which the work began.
“We are eagerly waiting to move to the new building. This is going to make us much more efficient,” a police official said.
The S12 Chitlapakkam police station would soon be moved from the current rented building to the allotted area situated few yards away on 1st Main Road, Chitlapakkam.
The Tamilnadu Police Housing Corporation had called out for the tenders for the construction.
The current station, which is quite old, has experienced electrical problems, less air circulation and methane gas leaks erupting from the garbage dumped adjacent to the station. It doesn’t even have adequate space for private conversations.
The new station is expected to change the station’s environment with multiplex facilities and air conditioning. The ground floor will hold law and order department, crime on the first floor and traffic wing on third floor. The office of Assistant Commissioner of Police will also come up in the same building.
“We want our officials to have a comfortable place to work. They had suffered to a great level with garbage dumped everyday adjacent to the building,” said Sugumar, a resident of Chitlapakkam.
He also requested that the present building should not be misused after
the police department is shifted as it is a lake area. “We do not want any garbage to be dumped here as temporary arrangement,” he said.