The City Police have appealed to the hotel and lodge owners to inform the police on the check-in details of strangers, so that a close watch on the visitors to the hotel rooms and the incoming and outgoing phone calls.
Police has prepared a website which can be accessed by all hoteliers. The police requested the latter to enter the details of all customers who book rooms in their respective facilities. Police will verify the details of the suspects and keep a strict vigil on them.
City Police Commissioner A.B. Venkateswara Rao, during a meeting held recently with the hotel and lodge owners, has announced the new system to keep a close vigil on the “strangers”.
Similar policy would be adopted in identifying unclaimed and new vehicles entering the city, said the police. The owners of the parking lots have also been requested to pass on information to the police on vehicles that are unclaimed, abandoned or kept in parking places for a long time.
Mr. Rao said the police were on the job to collect the details of all hotels and owners in the city. A login and password would be given to the managements who would share the details of the customers with the police.
“We have started the process of collecting the details of hotels and lodges. Computerisation of hotels will be completed soon,” said the commissioner.
In wake of the alert sounded after the killing of SIMI activists in Warangal district in Telangana, the Andhra Pradesh Police have tightened vigil at bus and railway stations and on the movement of suspected terrorists. The move would also prevent criminal gangs into the city from other States, the police said.
In September last year, a four-member gang from Delhi checked into the Rayala Hampi hotel at Hanuman Junction and conducted ‘recce’ on how to kill astrologers Gandham Nageswara Rao and his sons – G. Pagidi Maraiah and G. Maraiah.
“The gang checked into the hotel twice before they executed their plan on the National Highway at Pedavutapalli village on September 24,” said an officer, who is investigating the shootout case.
We have started the process of collecting the details of hotels and lodges. Computerisation of hotels will be completed soon
A.B. Venkateswara Rao,City Police Commissioner
We have started the process of collecting the details of hotels and lodges. Computerisation of hotels will be completed soon
A.B. Venkateswara Rao,City Police Commissioner
