N & M Andaman District

Superintendent of Police	:	Smt. Geetanjali Khandelwal, IPS Contact: 03192-273344 (O)
SDPO Diglipur	:	Shri. Brij Mohan Meena, Dy. SP Contact: 03192-272243 (O)
SDPO Rangat	:	Shri. Rahul L Nair, IPS, ASP Contact: 03192-274646 (O)

History

The North & Middle Andaman Revenue District came in existence on 18/08/2006. However, the Police District was formed on 21/01/2009. The office of SP (D) N&M Andaman headed by Shri. P. Karunakaran, IPS with a handful staff started functioning in the old Govt. building belonging to Registrar Co-operative Society. Earlier, there was only one Sub-Division having control on 05 Police Stations viz. Diglipur, Kalighat, Mayabunder, Billiground and Rangat in this district. The office of the Dy. SP N&M Andaman was also functioning at Mayabunder in the PS building.
On 18/03/2013, two separate Sub-Division namely 1. Diglipur and 2. Rangat was formed vide A&N Administration Notification dated 18/03/2013 circulated vide DGP’s endorsement No. DGP/Genl/2/11/2013/1924 dated 18/03/2013 with the following Police Stations under the charge of respective SDPOs.

Diglipur Sub-Division:-

PS Diglipur
PS Kalighat
PS Mayabunder

Rangat Sub-Division:-

PS Baratang
PS Kadamtala
PS Rangat
PS Billiground

There are 07 Police Stations, 09 Out Posts, 08 JPPs and 04 Look Out Post functioning in the North & Middle Andaman District as indicated below:-

S.No	Police Station	OPs	JPPs	Look Out Posts
1.	Baratang	-	Middle Strait	-
2.	Kadamtala	-	Bamboo Tekry Yeterjig No. 11 Parlobjig No. 03 Parlobjig No. 09 Parlobjig No. 15	-
3.	Rangat	Long Island Charlungta	Kushalya Nagar	-
4.	Billiground	Beta Pur Badam Nallah	-	-
5.	Mayabunder	Rest Camp Chainpur	Hanspuri	Luis Inlet Bay Interview Island
6.	Kalighat	Kishori Nagar	-	-
7.	Diglipur	Radha Nagar Sagar Dweep	-	East Island Norcondum Karen Nallah (Police Post)

Diglipur Sub-Division:-

The area of Diglipur Sub-Division starts from Kainchi Nalla towards Mayabunder Jetty covering the distance of appx 17 KMs on the northern direction on ATR and from Panighat Junction up to Kalipur via Diglipur covering a distance of appx 82 Kms. On the other side from Diglipur to Hathilevel via Radha Nagar area it extends to 38 KMs appx. The Police Station Mayabunder is situated close to Mayabunder jetty nearby Distt Office and other offices. The police station Kalighat is located around 65 Kms from Panighat Jn. and PS Diglipur is located appx 70 KMs from Panighat Junction.

Rangat Sub-Division:-

The Rangat Sub-Division covers the area starting from Baratang Island to Billiground which is connected by road and located on the ATR except Baratang to Kadamtala where one has to cross a creek in the sea from Gandhi Ghat jetty to Uttara jetty. There is vehicle ferry service provided to this sea route for the general public which is plying continuously from 0500 hrs 1700 hrs, The area of Baratang is covering a distance of appx 35 KMs which extends to Potatang which appx 10 KMs from Middle strait jetty towards Jirkatang. The entire Middle strait area comes under the Jarawa reserve area. Similarly, the area of PS Kadamtala extends to appx 25 KMs on ATR which also comes under Jarawa Reserve Area. However, the population is settled up to appx 10 KMs to a village called Phooltala, beyond which no settlement has taken place. The Police Stations Rangat and Billiground are covering an area of appx 40 KMs and appx 38 KMs respectively.

Population Composition

The population of North & Middle Andaman consists mainly of Ranchi, Bengalis, Malyali and Tamilians population. The total population of North & Middle Andaman is around 1,64,000 which is scattered all over the settlement/ encroachment areas.

Crime Data:-

In general, the crime rate is low compared to South Andaman District but various nature of IPC, Local & Special law are registered which are increasing day by day. A total of 538 cases were registered in the year 2012, Out of which IPC- 141, Excise cases-395 and others-02 cases registered. Whereas a total number of cases reported reached figure 476 as on 13/11/2013 (IPC-131, Excise 338 and others 07) In addition, a large number of Un-natural death cases are also reported in this district. During the year 2012, a total of 70 cases of Un-natural death was reported in the district of N & M Andaman. Whereas the figure reached to 84 as on 13/11/2013. It may be noted that the UD cases are very high in this district.

Police Stations Area and Boundaries

S.No	Name of Sub-Division	Name of Police Stations	Area and boundary of Police Station forming the Jurisdiction	Name of Sub-Ordinate Out Post	Jurisdiction over the area
1.	SDPO Rangat	Baratang		JPP Reporting Middle Strait
		Kadamtala		JPP Reporting Bamboo Tekry Yeterjig No. 11 Parlobjig No. 03 Parlobjig No. 09 Parlobjig No. 15
		Rangat	Rangat Bazar/Basti, Mithila, Rampur, Paranshala, Sitapur, Janakpur, Dasarastpur, Sabari, Yeratta, Bharatpur, Amakunj, Nimbutala, Rangat Bay Jetty/ Bazar, Chitrakut (Agriculture Farm)	Out Post Reporting i) Long Island	Entire area of Long Island
				Out Post Reporting ii) Charlungta	Saktigarh, Thikadeera, Charlungta, 11 No. Family, Kalsi No. 6, 1D Camp Bournial, Parlobjig –I, Kaushalya Nagar
				JPP Reporting iii) Bakultala	Bakultala Bazar -4, Syam Kand, Urmilapur, Kalsi, Laxmanpur, Bounial, Bounial-4, Bournial-3, Bournial-7
				JPP Reporting Kalsi Kaushalya Nagar
		Billiground	Billiground Bazar, Hari Nagar, Pinaki Nagar, Duke Nagar, louki Nallah, Jaipur, Kamlapur, Santipur, Swadesh Nagar, Curt-Burt Bay.	Outpost Reporting i) Betapur	Panchawti, Padmanaba Puram, Sivapura, Dhani Nallah, Thiruvanchikulam, Pichar Nallah, R.C. Nagar, Dharmapur, CFO Nallah, Thorotang
		Billiground		Outpost Reporting ii) Badam Nallah	Basanthipur, Govindpur, Nimbudeera, Profullanagar, Pocket Bay, Paresh Nagar, Kaichi Nallah.
		Mayabunder	Mayabunder, Poka Dera, Rampur, Danapur, Karmatang, Webi, Devpur, Autin 1-6, Burma Dera, Lucknow.	Outpost Reporting i) Rest Camp	Rest Camp Bazar, Pahalgaon, Togapur, Togapur -7, Togapur -8.
				Outpost Reporting ii) Chainpur	Chainpur -1, Chainpur -2, Pudumadurai, Bajota, Hanspuri, Sippy Tikrey, Ganeshpur, Luies-Inlet-Bay.
				Outpost Reporting Hanspuri Luies-Inlet-Bay
3.	SDPO Diglipur	Kalighat	Kalighat, Nischantpur, Ram Nagar, Jagannath Dehra, Patti Level, Navgram, Madhyamgram, Kalara	Outpost Reporting i) Kishori Nagar	Kishori Nagar, Parangara, Sri Nagar, Ganna Dabla, Mohanpur, Baskata Nallah, Hari Bay, Hara Tikrey, Austine, Talbagan, Paschim Sagar.
		Diglipur	Subash Gram, R.K.Gram, Magar Nallah, V.S.Palli, Keralapuram, Aerial Bay, Durgapur, Shivpur, Kalipur, Lemia Bay, Madhupur, Laxmipur, Bhadek, Milan Gram, Ravindrapalli, Krishnapuri, Sita Nagar, D.B.Gram	Outpost Reporting i) Sagar Dweep	Smith Island, Gandhi Nagar, Ganesh Nagar, Shanthi Nagar, Landfall, 40 Family.
		Diglipur		Outpost Reporting ii) Radha Nagar	Swaraj Gram, Radha Nagar, Shyam Nagar, Hati Level, Haridas Katai, Bandhan Nallah-I, Bandhan Nallah-II, Lalith Katai, Nayakatai, Krishna Katai, Sani Katai, Burma Chard, Bahudur Tikrey, Gopal Nagar –I, Gopal Nagar-II.

North & Middle Andaman District PS's, OP's & JPP's List

S.No	Name of Police Station’s	Name of Out Post’s	Name of JPP’s
1.	Rangat	Long Island Charlungta Bakultala (Not Functioning)	Kalsi Kaushalya Nagar
2.	Billi Ground	Betapur Badam Nallah
3.	Mayabunder	Rest Camp Chainpur	Hanspuri Luies-Inlet-Bay
4.	Kalighat	Kishori Nagar
5.	Diglipur	Sagar Dweep Radha Nagar