Odisha's Pattapur police station selected as best in India

Berhampur (17/11/2024): Pattapur Ganjam district of Odisha has been selected as one of the three best police stations in India 2024 by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). Union Home Minister Amit Shah will hand over the trophy to the inspector-in-charge of the police station in the convention of the Director Generals of Police, scheduled to be held at Bhubaneswar from November 29 to December 1. Joint Director and conference secretary, Intelligence Bureau of the MHA, Samir S IIme has written a letter to Odisha Director General of Police, Y B Khurania about the selection of Patapur as the best police station in the country. The ranking of police stations across the country is an annual exercise by the MHA, with the stations judged on the basis of over 150 different parameters like crime rate, investigation and disposal of cases, infrastructure, and delivery of public service.

About 20 per cent of the total points are also based on feedback about the police station from citizens. The objective of the ranking was to improve the quality of policing and make the police stations as friendly.