Quepem police stn shifted to WRD godown in Amona

Quepem: The Quepem police station has been temporarily moved to the godown of the water resources department (WRD) at Amona as the colonial era jail premises it had been occupying till recently is set to be demolished.
Work on constructing new premises for the police station will begin soon and is estimated to cost Rs 7 crore.
The temporary premises at Coleamoddi, Amona, which is at a distance of two kilometres from Quepem town, was inaugurated by deputy chief minister Chandrakant Kavalekar on Saturday in the presence of South Goa superintendent of police (SP) Pankaj Kumar Singh and Quepem deputy superintendent of police (DySP) Kiran Poduval.
Kavalekar said that the foundation stone for the new police station will be laid within a month when the chief minister is free to attend the function. The work order for the project has been issued to a private agency, Shivam Infratech. The new building is expected to be completed within a year, Kavalekar said.
“It will be a modern police station and will house the offices of the DySP, PI, police barracks for IRB, a library, canteen, rest rooms for personnel, traffic cell, fire station and officer recreation centre,” Kavalekar said.
The minister said that as per the order the date of commencement of work is February 2020 with March 2021 as the date of completion. “However, due to the lockdown and delay in shifting of the police station, the contractor could not start the construction work, and for that he will be granted additional time to complete the work,” Kavalekar said.
Quepem PI Santosh Dessai requested the Dy CM to complete the new police station building on fast track since the station’s present location is at an isolated place and will likely cause the public inconvenience to access in an emergency.
The PWD had spent around Rs 23 lakh to renovate the two godowns. One godown will serve as an office for the entire police staff, including one cabin for the PI with small partitions. The other godown serves as barracks with separate toilets facilities for male and female personnel.