Lucknow, Noida get their first police commissioners

TIL Desk/National/Lucknow/ The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh on Monday approved the commissionerate system of policing in Lucknow and Noida, which aims at giving more powers to the police. ADG Sujit Pandey and ADG Alok Kumar will be first police commissioners of Lucknow and Noida respectively, said Uttar Pradesh government spokesman.

The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting chaired by the chief minister. Talking to reporters after the meeting, Adityanath said state capital Lucknow and economic capital of the state Noida will have an ADG-level officer as police commissioner. Both police commissioners will have magisterial powers.

The system gives more powers, including magisterial powers, to police officers and is aimed at better and effective policing. Under the new system 40 police stations in Lucknow will be brought under the police commissioner who will have a team of two IGs as joint commissioners, nine SP-rank officials and a lady officer of SP rank along with a lady officer of ASP rank, the CM said.