Hyderabad: City Police Commissioner Mr. CV Anand IPS chaired a video conference with all senior officers, SHOs, and traffic wing to review the security and traffic arrangements for the Milad-Un-Nabi festival and related processions, meetings to be held from tonight.
Since the celebrations are usually marked with bike rallies, processions and meetings emphasis was laid on stream lining traffic arrangements, including diversions, barricading and closing fly overs etc. The traffic officials were instructed to close the flyover and ensure the processions moves in the pre-determined routes without any hindrances. The concerned zonal DCPs were tasked to liaison with R&B officials to ensure proper barricading is in place.
Instructions were given to close all the establishments’ in-time to prevent any untoward incident and unnecessary crowd movement. City police chief has asked to bind over all the communal history sheeters and keep a watch on the suspects. He urged all the police personnel to be more mobile and visible on field since the event would witness participation of youth in large numbers.
Proper deployment of additional forces, anti-sabotage checks, and several operational issues were discussed in length. “Don’t be complacent.” said CP Mr. Anand.
Arrangements were being made particularly to cover vulnerable areas of mixed population and places of worship. Special teams will be deployed to keep a tab on rash driving and prevent unlawful assemblies
Senior officers heading L&O, SB and other wings shared previous experiences and other vital operational issues and listed preventive measures. Mr. Anand exhorted the SHOs to Liaise with peace committees, and on-boarding more youngsters.
Hyderabad City Police is also keeping a close watch on social media platforms to check spreading of any unverified or malicious posts. The social media monitoring team was tasked to maintain high vigil.
Mr. Vikram Singh Mann IPS Addl. CP. L&O, Mr. Kartikeya IPS Jt. CP. CAR, Mrs. D. Sunitha Reddy DCP attended the meeting and all officers attended on online.
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