The Shahdara DCP office has been shifted from Bholanath Nagar to the Shahdara police station after the Delhi Police Housing Corporation Limited declared the previous building dilapidated, bringing the DCP, ACP and cyber police offices under one roof for the time being.
Delhi Police Commissioner Anurag Kumar inaugurated the new office at the Shahdara police station on Tuesday. The office will operate from the first floor of the police station’s three-storey building, according to the report by Jagran – New Delhi.
The relocation means that residents seeking to meet the Shahdara DCP will no longer have to travel to a separate office in Bholanath Nagar. The same facility will house the Shahdara DCP office, the ACP office and the cyber police station, allowing complainants to approach multiple levels of police administration from one location.
The shift follows an assessment by the Delhi Police Housing Corporation Limited, which declared the earlier DCP office building in Bholanath Nagar dilapidated. The report does not specify when the building was declared unsafe or whether it has been closed entirely, but identifies its condition as the reason for relocating the DCP office.
The new arrangement is temporary. Commissioner Anurag Kumar said the DCP office would function from the Shahdara police station until a new building is constructed. He also encouraged police personnel to improve their work during his visit to the facility.
The relocation places the administrative office within the same police-station complex that handles local policing and includes the cyber police station. For complainants, the arrangement changes the access point for the senior police administration in Shahdara, while the longer-term location will depend on the construction of a new DCP office building.
The move comes after an earlier dispute at the Shahdara police station on October 24 involving lawyers and police personnel. The report says ACP Gandhi Nagar Manaswi Vashishtha later faced suspension after a protest at police headquarters and opposition from lawyers. The commissioner’s visit on Tuesday, however, was for the inauguration of the shifted office and not in connection with that dispute.
Special Commissioner Zone One Devesh Chandra Srivastava, DCP R P Meena, Rajiv Rawal, Rahul Alwal and Additional Deputy Commissioner Geetanjali Khandelwal were among the officers present at the inauguration. The office will remain at the Shahdara police station until the proposed new building is ready.
