Although the much-awaited Koregaon Park (KP) police station was inaugurated on Monday, Pune police commissioner, Meeran Chadha Borwankar, admitted that red-tapism delayed the process
considerably.
Speaking at the opening function of the station on the road adjoining lanes 4 and 5, the city police chief said, “I find it hard to believe that the KP police station is seeing the light of day.”
Taking about her experience of getting the sanction from the state government, she said, “The media and people were always asking me about the police station. I was regularly following up with the state government, but the file was moving at a snail’s pace. Finally, we got the police station.”
She said that the citizen-friendly police station will definitely make a difference.
Pune municipal commissioner, Mahesh Pathak said, “The setting up of this police station was important as Koregaon houses many prominent establishments.”
Senior police inspector Shivaji Kamble, one police inspector, nine police sub-inspectors (PSI) and 78 policemen have been appointed by the city police for this station.
However, the state home department is yet to provide funds for the station. After three years of agonising wait, the city police took possession of 10 gunthas for the police station.
Deputy commissioner of police (zone II), Raghunath Khaire, officially took possession of the plot after getting the order from senior police officers. The plot is located on Lane 4, Koregaon Park, and Survey No 112-2.
The demand for a police station in Koregaon Park picked up post-German Bakery bomb blast on February 13, 2010. Seventeen people were killed and several others injured in the terror attack.
