bhubaneswar the state director general of police sunil kumar bansal on wednesday inaugurated a special crime unit scu police station here the scu will probe only complex cases like organised crime drug trafficking and economic frauds within the jurisdictions of bhubaneswar and cuttack commissionerate police areajust as the state crime branch is an elite investigating agency of the odisha police the scu will function as the specialised probe wing of the commissionerate police a dcprank officer has been made as the head of the scu police station which will function from the commissionerate police headquarterswe will refer selected cases involving high value economic offences narcotics drug smuggling and other organised crimes of the bhubaneswarcuttack areas to the scu police station this will ensure a more focussed investigation and results commissioner of police saumendra priyadarsi saiddeputy commissioner of police prateek singh said the scu will ease the pressure on normal police stations that are overburdened with cases we have been receiving several complaints of economic offences including land and real estate frauds even though our police stations have been probing such cases we will now get some of them probed by the scu singh saidadditional commissioner of police uma shankar dash said the scu will crack the whip on drug traffickers as bhubaneswar and cuttack frequently witnessed massive drug haulsthe commissionerate police have sent a proposal to the government to set up two new police stations one each at gothapatna and kalinga vihar in the city at present gothapatna and kalinga vihar areas come under chandaka bharatpur and tamando police stations bhubaneswar which has a population of around 10 lakh has 30 police stations of which four were inaugurated in the last oneandahalf yearsthere is also a plan to create a separate law and order unit whose personnel will not be assigned any investigation tasks at present personnel of the police stations have been discharging multifarious duties including investigation maintenance of law and order and regulation of trafficif we separate law and order duties from inquiry our investigators will focus exclusively on the investigation of crimes they will not be assigned on lawandorder duties another police official said