NYPD style office for police in Hyderabad
Banjara Hills to house important wings
By : rahoof
Update: 2014-08-15 02:37 GMT
Hyderabad: Hyderabad police will have an integrated headquarters like the NYPD, 1 Police Plaza, situated at Manhattan. The state government is planning to use the police land at Banjara Hills to relocate the police commissionerate, Traffic Control Room, command control centre, and other important departments, said Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Thursday.
Flagging of new police vehicles at Tank Bund, the Chief Minister said that it is important to build Hyderabad into a safe and smart city in order to attract investors. He said the city police department would undergo drastic changes and will take up new measures for people-friendly policing.
“Most international investors enquire about the law and order situation apart from power allocation and water. So, it is vital to ensure a safe Hyderabad to attract them,” the CM said expressing hope that with all the new measures the city police would perform on par with their counterparts in developed countries.
The CM said that common people should not be afraid of complaining to the police. “You should welcome complaints politely and be friendly with people,” Mr Rao told the cops. He asked police to refrain from jurisdictional blame games, and told them to react quickly to problems.
“When incident occurred, the cops should not say that is other police station’s jurisdiction, not ours. They should think its city police limits and act quickly,” he said.
Home Minister Mr. Nayini Narsimha Reddy said that with the world class surveillance measures taken up by police, no criminals would get away with his deeds in future.
“The CCTV cameras would cover every inch of Hyderabad and the city will be crime free,” the Minister said. He added that by giving weekly offs to cops government would help them to be stress free and there by increasing their performance.
Telangana DGP Mr. Anurag Sharma said that the police has introduced a Standard Operation Procedures to enable the cops to take appropriate actions on different situations. He said that with the high end equipments installed in the police vehicles, the response time would be merely 10 minutes if anything happens anywhere in the city.