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11 Police Outposts In Tripura Upgraded As Full-Fledged Police Stations To Maintain Law And Order

Tripura now has a total of 99 police stations in the state with the addition of the 11 new ones. The 11 new police stations will initially start working with the existing manpower and other resources.

Guwahati: The Tripura government on Saturday decided to upgrade a total of 11 police outposts of the state to full-fledged police stations to maintain law and order more effectively. The proposed 11 outposts, which are being upgraded as full-fledged police stations include Bagma, Chelagung, Manpathar, Baijalbari, Taibandal, Khairpur, Bagbasa, Champaknagar, Collegetilla, GB, and Ramnagar. The 11 new police stations will initially start working with the existing manpower and other resources.

Additional facilities will be extended later with areas of some of the police stations being reorganised as part of the revamping plan.

Assistant Inspector General, Law & Order, Jyotishman Das Chowdhury said, “A notification from the state home department has informed that these 11 police outposts from now onwards will function as police stations which will enhance the overall policing system in the state.”

Tripura now has a total of 99 police stations in the state with the addition of the 11 new ones.

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Going back to the past, the state of Tripura had once earned the “dubious distinction” of being the most unsafe place for women.  The state had become a hub of ‘criminal activities’ due to its close proximity to the Bangladesh border. 

Organised crimes had also increased manifold in the state due to which the Tripura government has recently set up a Special Task Force (STF) to tackle these organised criminals.

The STF has been constituted to take focused action against organised criminal groups, criminal syndicates, extortion gangs, and such other crimes.

According to data, at least 407 cases of rape, including 26 gang rapes, were recorded in Tripura since January 2020. In these cases, seven of the rape victims were murdered after the first crime was committed.

From molestation to gang rapes, within a span of 15 days, the state had witnessed half a dozen cases of heinous crimes against women between October and November 2022.

The upgradation of the 11 police outposts to full-fledged police stations is expected to go a long way in helping to control the “rising crime graph” in the state.

The writer is a senior independent journalist covering the Northeast.

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