City to be on alert, says DGP

The director-general of police, Mr R.R. Girish Kumar, on Thursday said the security sensitisation programmes would continue in the city for the next few days in the wake of the red alerts issued by the Centre.
The DGP said this at the inauguration of the automated red light violation system at the Cyberabad commisionerate which would enable the traffic police to identify violators and despatch challans to their homes with video evidence of the rule violation.
The DGP also inaugurated the online “Know your case’s status” on the commissionerate’s website, which enables citizens to pursue the status by subscribing to the format or by SMSing the police station’s name and case number to 9490100100.
Meanwhile, the city police commissioner, Mr A.K. Khan, briefed the Chief Minister, Mr K. Rosaiah, and the home minister, Ms P. Sabita Indra Reddy, about the security sensitisation programmes and precautionary measures being taken.
The city security wing on Thursday organised a sensitisation programme at Goshamahal at which it discussed with managements of malls, business establishments, theatres and security agencies about the measures that must be adopted to prevent any untoward incident. The police had sent decoys and observed that some of the establishments have not been conducting proper checks. Participants were shown explosives and ingredients of IEDs so that they can identify these things if found. The police listed 31 precautionary measures which the participants were apprised of.