5 police stations in Noida get ISO tag for good infra
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Beta 2, Bisrakh, Sectors 39, 49 and 58 police stations were awarded the certification. Police commissioner Laxmi Singh said the stations underwent a special drive to standardise their operations, focusing on improving public services, ensuring prompt grievance redressal, and strengthening administrative management.
"A special campaign was launched for standardisation of these five police stations to improve the level of police services provided, timely and quality redressal of public grievances, and the administrative system," she said.
Standard operating procedures (SOPs) were also prepared for various branches located in the police stations, under a prescribed action plan. Police personnel appointed in the five police stations were provided training related to various subjects.
So far, the police commissioner's office in Sector 108/police headquarters, Surajpur, and eight police stations of the commissionerate (including Expressway, Badalpur, and Knowledge Park) were awarded ISO 9001:2015 quality management systems.
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