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Anti-terror alert CD to sensitise people

HYDERABAD: Hoping to rope in the common man in countering the terror tactics, the city police is planning to enlist the support of telecom companies to replace the normal dial tone with anti-terror messages detailing how people could identify suspicious objects, which could actually be an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) planted by a terrorist.

Police said the messages compatible to be played as ‘dial tone’ by telecom companies were being prepared and in a couple of days any landline telephone would have the normal dial tone replaced by anti-terror alert messages.

This is one of the slew of measures being introduced in the State capital to involve the common man in countering the forces inimical to the nation.

The city police are also distributing audio CDs free of cost to business establishments, which have been ordered to play the multi-lingual messages.

On Wednesday, the city police made it mandatory for all business establishments like shopping malls, cinema halls, hotels, hospitals, parks, bus stations, railway stations to play this audio CD every 30 minutes. The playing of the CD is compulsory for business establishments as it is made part of licensing conditions now. The CDs are to be collected from local police stations.

Similar messages would also be supplied to schools where it could be played during Assembly timings.

Another initiative that is to be launched in a day or two is that five vehicles equipped with good public address systems would continuously move on the roads blaring the anti-terror alerts.

Meanwhile, Commissioner of Police B. Prasada Rao appealed to people to look out for suspicious looking objects like tiffic boxes, suitcases, wooden boxes, travel bags, gift packs; unclaimed vehicles parked for a long period and alert the police.

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