With the State government announcing that temporary capital would be set up at Vijayawada, police are taking steps to reinforce Vijayawada Police Commissionerate, by allotting more funds to the temporary State police headquarters.
As part of it, Director General of Police (DGP) J.V. Ramudu held a review meeting with the department officials here on Saturday and took stock of the situation. The Vijayawada Commissionerate and the Krishna District police while appraising the present position urged the DGP to sanction more wings to tackle the VVIP movements, traffic and the communication system.
City Police Commissioner A.B. Venkateswara Rao, Eluru Range Deputy Inspector General of Police Hari Kumar, Krishna district Superintendent of Police G. Vijay Kumar and other officials attended the review meeting.
Control room soughtThe Vijayawada city police urged Mr. Ramudu to initiate measures to set up a control room for improving police communication, allot more vehicles, arrange traffic signals and allot funds for setting up necessary wings at the ad hoc capital.
The DGP promised to discuss the matter with the Financial Department and provide necessary funds.
“We appealed to the DGP to set up more wings to tackle investigations, security for VVIPs, traffic and other issues. The strength of the police needs to be increased and the government responded positively for the proposals,” a police officer told The Hindu .
Additional DGPs R.P. Takur, A.R. Anuradha, C.H. Dwaraka Tirumala Rao, N.V. Surendra Babu, V.S. Kaumudi and D. Bhoobati Babu were present.
