With no proper rooms for its staff or maintaining records, the bureau is now working in a makeshift space with leaking cement sheets for a roof.
The police commissioner’s decision to stay in his official quarters has evicted the city crime records bureau. With no proper rooms for its staff or maintaining records, the bureau is now working in a makeshift space with leaking cement sheets for a roof. The onset of monsoon has made life miserable for the staff.
The bureau had been working from the residence meant for the commissioner since the previous top cop in the city, Shankar M Bidari, had preferred to stay in his BTM Layout residence.
His successor BG Jyothi Prakash Mirji, however, decided to move into the official residence behind his office on Infantry Road. However, an alternative arrangement was not made to house the bureau with more than 20 personnel.
“This space was flooded in last week’s rain. We were forced to temporarily shift the records and furniture from the room. Next day, the roof was covered with plastic sheets to prevent water leaking into the room. Now the roof does not leak, but rainwater gushes in through the ventilator and the temporary doors,” said an officer on condition of anonymity.
Visitors to the office were now forced to wait outside in the open as the bureau does not have a lounge. A couple of senior citizens were seen sitting on the stairs.
Another officer said the problems would be solved after the inauguration of the bureau's new office. “I don’t know why it is taking so long to inaugurate it,” he said.
Though the officer sounded optimistic about solving the problems, he was worried whether the strong winds would blow away the plastic sheets. He added that the cement sheets were not strong enough to withstand the monsoon onslaught.
“We are working under fear that sheets would break and fall on us. But we have no other option. We have already occupied some space in the Crime Record Bureau, which again is a problem for them as well as us. They too have little space,” he added. Yet another officer joked that he was wishing that Kannada Chaluvali Paksha leader Vattal Nagaraj would stage a protest on behalf of the bureau. He was referring to Nagaraj’s recent protest with commodes.
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