Even as the city police and the Crime Branch struggle to combat the increase in serious crimes, the BKC police station can boast of keeping the crime graph under check.
With its well-equipped office and staff, crime in the area has come down
MUMBAI: Even as the city police and the Crime Branch struggle to combat the increase in serious crimes, including murder, assault, kidnapping and terrorism, the Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) police station can boast of keeping the crime graph under check.
Built in 2002, the police station seems like just another corporate office. It has a large lobby, spiral staircase, sensible office furniture, guest counters, a fountain, attractive wall décor, changing rooms for men and women and a well-maintained canteen. A gymnasium will soon be added to the station.
The ISO-certified police station houses the offices of the zonal Deputy Commissioner of Police, an Assistant Commissioner of Police and has a staff of nearly 150 personnel. Data and other records are fully computerised. Almost half the force here is fluent in English.
The police station has under its jurisdiction Mumbai University’s Kalina Campus, the National Stock Exchange, the Securities and Exchange Board of India, the Income Tax Office, Dhirubhai Ambani and American schools, the Diamond Bourse, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority and the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation headquarters, a family court and the Registrar’s office.
The new American Consulate, the International Convention Centre and a large commercial complex that will house multiplexes and shopping malls, are coming up in the area, making it a busy
business district.
The area has many hutments and middle-class tenements. Many people work at the commercial complex and an equally large number visit the area daily.
For the past two years, not a single case of murder or attempt to murder has been reported from the area. Neither have there been any reported cases of assault, robbery or dacoity. The cases that have been registered are of a minor nature - chain snatching, pick-pocketing and eve-teasing.
“With our intensive foot patrolling, these complaints are on the decline,” said Rolfie Pereira, senior inspector and station in-charge. The total number of cases registered this year is 155, compared to 160 in the corresponding period last year, Pereira said.
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