MUMBAI, July 7 -- It's a rainy afternoon. Cops in many offices under the Navi Mumbai police commissionerate are hard at work. The control room is filled with frenzied clicks of keypads and phone rings. In the kennel, the dog squad trainer is trying to get two Dobermans and a German shepherd to stop barking. And inside the investigation room, the air is thick and tense as usual. But at the police headquarter's 1,000-sq-ft butterfly garden, deputy commissioner Sanjaykumar Patil breaks into a smile when he sees a black butterfly. "Did you see that?" he says excitedly while trying to look for other winged creatures. Patil spends a few minutes at this newest feature of the Belapur office every day before starting work. "It's a green, positive space, and I like walking around here," he adds. Curious visitors stop by to read the plaques on the 60 different plant varieties in the garden or the board that names the different species of butterflies spotted here. The garden is one of 10 such gardens built across Navi Mumbai police stations under the project Butterfly Patrol, by NGO iNature Foundation. The project was initiated in December last year and has since built and maintained butterfly gardens at stations in Kalamboli, Taloja, Nerul, Seawoods, Belapur and Panvel. The purpose is manifold - to create a green cover at police stations, and build habitats for butterflies, an important bug of the city's biodiversity. "No one likes going to police stations. They are perceived as stressful, dreaded spaces," says V Subhalaxmi, founder of the INature Foundation. "We know that gardens and butterflies help reduce stress and create a pleasant environment. So, if there was one place that needed it the most, it was the police stations," she adds. This aligned with Navi Mumbai police commissioner Milind Bharambe's vision to make cop stations friendly places, says Patil. The Navi Mumbai police helped the NGO in the survey of the building and maintenance of the project. At the Taloja MIDC station, the garden is often occupied by women and visitors who are minors. "They prefer sitting there than inside the station since it is cooler, green and has a more positive vibe than the concrete rooms of a cop station," says senior police inspector Pravin Bhagat. The garden also helps increase oxygen levels in this station, which is situated in an industrial area....