Police to focus on border areas: DGP

By Our Staff Reporter

NIZAMABAD, OCT. 10. The Director-General of police, Mr. H. J. Dora, has said that the State police have started paying more attention to the movement of banned People's War Group (PWG) naxalites on the borders with Orissa, Chattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh in the wake of violent incidents in the recent past.

Speaking to reporters here today, Mr. Dora said the AP police had been maintaining close coordination with the police of the border States after the recent attack on the Kalimela and Motu police stations in Orissa. Gajapati, Malkangiri and Ganjam districts of Orissa were now getting the attention of the PWG cadre because of predominant tribal population.

The attacks had made the Orissa police go in for precautionary measures to thwart further attacks. The police of Orissa, Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh were equipping themselves to check the extremist menace.

When the two Orissa police stations were attacked, it was the Bhadrachalam sub-division police which first rushed to the rescue of the trapped police personnel. Crossing the Sabari, they could shift the injured police personnel to Andhra Pradesh for treatment. The coordination between the neighbouring police had thus improved a lot, the DGP said.

He said the PWG had been lying low in North Telangana and South Telangana. But, their activities were now concentrated on the Andhra Pradesh-Orissa border. The AP-Orissa border special zone committee had been active for the past few months.

Computerisation on the cards

Thoroughly impressed by computerisation and networking of the district police, Mr. Dora said all the district police in the State would be computerised in a phased manner.

To begin with, the Hyderabad City police, Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada police would be computerised and all the district police would follow suit at a later stage. By the end of the year, computerisation of all police stations in the three major cities would be done, the DGP said adding that already discussions with a software company had been held.

He complimented the Nizamabad SP, Dr. Ravi Shankar Ayyanar, for having taken a headstart. The Government of India had also released funds for modernisation of the police force, he said pointing out that the installation of surveillance cameras at major intersections of Nizamabad district was a major achievement. Mr. Dora said while the police top brass were discussing the issue of installation of surveillance cameras, it was heartening to note that the Nizamabad police had already started experimenting with it. The issue was discussed with the Chief Minister, Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu, to install surveillance cameras at all important junctions and also the entry and exit points in the State capital.

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