GHMC ELECTION POLLING DAY/SECURITY ARRANGEMENT/ANJANI KUMAR IPS CP HYD HINDI SPEECH/PRO HYDERABAD

 GHMC ELECTION POLLING DAY/SECURITY ARRANGEMENT/ANJANI KUMAR IPS CP HYD HINDI SPEECH/PRO HYDERABAD

Today(29th Nov,2020) Sri. Anjani Kumar, IPS Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad city held a Press conference on GHMC ELECTIONS. We have made all security arrangements with 22 thousand policemen for GHMC ELECTIONS. We have briefed the police personnel four times. We have set uptight police security in all areas as per State Election Commission guidelines. The election campaign ends today at 6 p.m. Central and state forces are available in Hyderabad city. We have set up security at normal, sensitive, hypersensitive, and critical polling stations under the leadership of Inspectors level officers. Striking Force, Emergency Response Team will be available. Security set up at 293 hypersensitive pickets. I have set up 6 Armed Police Teams at Critical Hypersensitive Police Centers. There are 89 wards under Hyderabad Commissionerate. There are 4979 polling stations and 817 new polling stations have been set up as compared to 2016. There are 2146 normal polling stations, 1517 Sensitive polling stations, and 167 Hypersensitive polling stations. We are constantly monitoring with 406 mobile parties. We have set up 29 border check posts in Hyderabad and 293 pickets in hypersensitive areas. Till now a total of 4187 Guns was deposited, 3066 rowdy sheeters were bounded over, and Rs. 1.45 crore cash was seized and Drugs, alcohol all together seized items worth Rs 10 lakhs. Total 55 FIRs were registered in 63 complaints. We have linked every polling station with geotagging. We keep a close watch on social media. Issued 49 pending non-bailable warrants. We have secured security through an electronic platform. We are monitoring through 4 lakh CCTV cameras with ACP and DCP level officers, we have round the clock surveillance in the CP office. We put on live streaming after the election and set up tight surveillance at the Strong Rooms. Polling time is from 7 am to 6 pm and voters can exercise their voting right without fear. As per the orders of the State Election Officer, the leaders of the respective parties who came from outside should leave Hyderabad city after 6 pm this evening. All are requested to election guidelines should be followed. Election agents will not be allowed special vehicles. Therefore, they should travel in contesting candidate vehicles only. Voters can park their vehicles at 200 meters distance to the polling station. Only one vehicle per ward per candidate is allowed on polling day. Smt.Shikha Goel, IPS Addl. CP. Crime & SIT, Sri Anil Kumar IPS, Addl. CP. Traffic, Sri. DS.Chauhan IPS Addl. CP. L&O, Sri.Tarun Joshi IPS Jt. CP. Special Branch, Sri. AR.Srinivas, Jt. CP. West Zone, Sri.P.Vishwa Prasad, IPS, Jt. CP. Central Zone, Sri.M.Ramesh IPS, Jt. CP. East Zone and Smt.D.Sunitha Reddy, Addl.DCP. CTC HO has attended the press meet.