Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday laid the e-foundation stone for the integrated headquarters of the Delhi Police Special Cell, describing it as the country’s “most modern centre” for tackling narcotics and terrorism.
Addressing the 79th Delhi Police Raising Day programme here, Amit Shah said, “Today, the e-foundation stone was laid here for the integrated headquarters of the Special Cell to further strengthen the Delhi Police. The integrated headquarters of the Special Cell is being constructed at an estimated cost of around Rs 400 crore.” Shah said the facility would be equipped with a state-of-the-art indoor firing range, a war room, cyber lab, training hall and advanced equipment.
It will, in a way, become the country’s most modern centre for tackling narcotics and terrorism. Equipped with a state-of-the-art indoor firing range, war room, cyber lab, training hall, and various advanced equipment, this headquarters will be fully modernised. I am confident that it will emerge as an ideal Special Cell headquarters for police forces across the country,” Shah said.
The Union Home Minister also laid the foundation stone for 10 new projects of the Delhi Police and inaugurated the first phase of the Safe City Project.
An advanced Integrated Command, Control, Communication and Computer Centre (C4I), built at a cost of approximately Rs 857 crore, is being dedicated to the people of Delhi. Along with this, 11 district-level C3I centres and 75 police station-level C2I units will also be integrated into the system,” Shah added.
Shah said that under the first phase of a programme to connect the capital through 10,000 cameras, 2,100 cameras have already gone live. The process of integrating over 15,000 existing cameras across Delhi into the centralised system has also been completed.
Highlighting the Centre’s record on internal security, Shah said the period from 2014 to 2026 would be remembered as a “golden era” for the country’s internal security.
He said that before 2014, three major challenges had persisted for decades: the situation in Kashmir, unrest in the North-East, and Maoist insurgency across several states. Referring to the abrogation of Article 370, he claimed that incidents of violence in Kashmir, the North-East and Maoist-affected areas had been reduced by up to 80%.
“The day is not far when these three regions will become completely free from violence,” he said.
Shah said that under the first phase of a programme to connect the capital through 10,000 cameras, 2,100 cameras have already gone live. The process of integrating over 15,000 existing cameras across Delhi into the centralised system has also been completed.
Highlighting the Centre’s record on internal security, Shah said the period from 2014 to 2026 would be remembered as a “golden era” for the country’s internal security.
He said that before 2014, three major challenges had persisted for decades: the situation in Kashmir, unrest in the North-East, and Maoist insurgency across several states. Referring to the abrogation of Article 370, he claimed that incidents of violence in Kashmir, the North-East and Maoist-affected areas had been reduced by up to 80%.
“The day is not far when these three regions will become completely free from violence,” he said.
