Chennai (PTI): The heads of police of the southern states, who met here on Friday to discuss measures to curb the spread of the Naxalite movement and a host of other crimes, decided to step up their coordination at various levels with periodic meetings.

As a first step, Superintendents of Police of the border districts of all these states would meet once in three months and share information on naxalite movement, cyber crime, narcotics trafficking and inter-state criminal activities.

The DGPs would meet once a year and heads of crime branch and CID of the southern states would meet once in six months, an official press release said.

Discussions at the one-day meeting of the DGPs revolved around making use of modern technology for police, tackling cyber crime, counterfeit currency, trafficking in women and children, left-wing extremism and idol thefts.

DGPs of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Puducherry participated in the meeting.