The Police Department is planning to set up the temporary Director-General of Police’s (DGP’s) office at Velagapudi, near the interim Secretariat. Officials are asking the government to allot necessary space for constructing the proposed office.
Top police officials will meet CRDA Commissioner N. Srikanth at his office and explain the requirements for constructing the DGP office, along with some other wings in the capital region. Following the directions of Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, the police will operate from the new capital from June.
Additional Directors General of Police, IGPs, DIGs and heads of different wings are likely to participate in the CRDA-Police meeting to be held on Friday in the city.
City Police Commissioner D. Gautam Sawang said police are seeking allotment of 2.80 lakh square feet space at Velagapudi. Other wings, including Police Communications, Special Branch (SB), Intelligence Security Wing (ISW), Greyhounds, and Crime Investigation Department (CID), would be shifted to the capital region.
More dog squads
“The City Security Wing (CSW), SB, ISW and the communications system are being strengthened. More dog squads, bomb squads and anti-sabotage checking teams will come to the capital region. We are asking space out of the Secretariat at Velagapudi for setting up these wings,” Mr. Sawang told a press conference here on Thursday.
“Along with Chief Minister, Cabinet Ministers, foreign delegates and other VIPs are moving in Vijayawada, we want to strengthen CSW and the ISW. Though the Chief Minister is operating from AP, establishment of ISW is in Hyderabad. We are also planning to install necessary infrastructure to support the wings which will operate from the cP Capital in the next few days,” the Police Commissioner said.