Telangana Police stations must have social media accounts

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Sat, Dec 30, 2017, 06:28 PM

Telangana Police stations must have social media accounts

Hyderabad, Dec 30: All Telangana police stations in will have the Facebook account and Twitter handle from next year for communication with people on a daily basis, the state police chief announced on Saturday.

Director General of Police M. Mahender Reddy said they will use technology and undertake people-friendly initiatives in mission mode to achieve the objective of safer Telangana.

The state has about 800 police stations. The DGP said the technology initiatives undertaken in Hyderabad in recent years would be extended to all the districts and all the units of the police force.

All police stations will also have reception desk and grievance redressal and petition management system. People's feedback will be taken through third party call centre and based on this, every police station will be given citizen satisfaction rating.

He announced that 2018 will be the year of technology and citizen-friendly initiatives. He released the annual plan for the year, highlighting the proposed initiatives to achieve eight goals - improving service delivery, combat existing and emerging crimes, organization building and transformation, workforce management, adoption to technology, a partnership with community and domain experts, road safety and traffic management and making cities safer.