Thiruvananthapuram > Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Tuesday said the govt was yet to take a final decision on setting up metropolitan police commissionerates in the state and it would be implemented only after a consensus emerges on the issue. Under the metropolitan system, police commissioners will have magisterial powers like District Collectors.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan informed the state Assembly that the proposal to set up the commissionarates in Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi was under consideration, but the LDF government was in "no hurry" to implement it. He also pointed out that his government had not taken any new decision in this regard and the proposal was the "policy decision" of the previous Oommen Chandy government.
"We are yet to take a final decision on the police commissionerate system. It will be done only after taking into account the peculiar circumstances in Kerala and holding discussions and evolving a consensus," the Chief Minister said while replying to a notice for an adjournment motion.
Even if the commissionerate system is implemented, the government has no plan to grant police the powers to detain people under the Kerala Anti-Social (Activities) Prevention Act (KAPA), he said.
The opposition members staged a walkout as Speaker, P Sreeramakrishnan denied permission for the adjournment motion based on the reply of the Chief Minister.
