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Police Commissioner to interact with people for an hour everyday

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PEOPLE-FRIENDLY: City Police Commissioner B. Prasada Rao at the ‘Meet the Press’ programme on Wednesday.

HYDERABAD: Has the Hyderabad Police Commissionerate office become inaccessible to people due to increased presence of security personnel? No, but security needs of even the police had increased tremendously in the backdrop of threat from terrorist outfits and extremists, City Police Commissioner B. Prasada Rao said on Wednesday.

Interacting with media persons at the ‘Meet the Press’, Mr. Rao said he would strive to improve interface with the public by earmarking at least an hour every day -- tentatively from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. -- to listen to their complaints. He also assured to be available for people living in the old city at his Purani Haveli office twice a week.

Outlining his priorities, the Commissioner said he would like the police to treat the public empathetically. “I want my station house officers to be courteous,” he said. Mr. Rao said he would prefer to strengthen the police stations in all aspects. He observed that haphazard parking of vehicles was throwing traffic haywire at many places. Some routes had become notorious for traffic congestion and attempts would be made to ensure that traffic movement was unhindered at least on a few stretches, he added.

He said there was no breakthrough in the investigation into the twin blasts. The reports that Hyderabadi youth Ziyauddin Nasir, who was arrested in Karnataka, was connected to terrorist outfits were being verified.

Measures like noting down details of domestic helps and workers at police station level and videographing localities secretly to track down offenders resorting to snatchings would be undertaken.

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