Karnataka government sets up District Police Complaints Authority
12:11PM Sun 14 Feb, 2016
MANGALURU: State government has appointed chief of city police units in Karnataka as the member secretary of the District Police Complaints Authority functioning out of police commissionerates in the state. Accordingly, M Chandra Sekhar, police commissioner, Mangaluru city police will be the member secretary for Dakshina Kannada Authority. The regional commissioner, Mysuru will be the chairperson of the authority as per government order dated February 4, 2016
The Authority is empowered to inquire into custodial deaths, grievous injuries, rape and such other serious offences that a police officer of the rank of deputy superintendent of police or assistant commissioners of police and below them might commit. It also has powers to inquire into cases of misbehaviour and misuse of power by such officials. Complaints against officers above the rank of DySP/ACP will have to be submitted to the State Police Complaints Authority.
One may get in touch with the Dakshina Kannada Authority at the office of the Commissioner of Police, Mangaluru City, near DKCA Pavilion, Nehru Maidan, Mangaluru 575001 or over phone 0824-2220801. The State Authority may be contacted at Room No. 36, Ground Floor, Vikasa Soudha, Bengaluru 560001, phone 080-22386063/22034220, said an official release.
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