Safe City Project Reviewed

 Several key decisions were made and pending issues in Safe City project were addressed in a high level coordination meeting chaired by the Hyderabad City Police Commissioner Mr.CV Anand, the nodal officer of the safe city project for tri-commissionerates, here at 17th floor conference call in Hyderabad Police Commissionerate, TSPICCC.

ADG Women Safety, Ms.Shikha Goel;  CP Rachakonda,  Mr.D. S.Chauhan; CP Cyberabad, Mr. Stephen Ravindra, officials  of TSTS, GHMC, other Govt departments  were in attendance.The meeting discussed several components of the Safe City Project, including the new CDEWs -  Center for Development and Empowerment of Women, pelican signals, outreach vehicles, CCTVs, Bharosa center, forensic labs, and mobile SHE toilets. 

Discussions were held on various timelines related to the project, such as making 26 CDEWs operational by the end of May, addressing connectivity issues in  CCTV networks, purchasing equipment for FSL labs and getting them ready by August this year, prioritizing & handling Dial 100 calls pertaining to women and children in distress by trained personnel, and training & deploying volunteers to operate pelican signals. 

The current status of buildings that would house the new  Bharosa centers of tri-commissionerates was reviewed. It was decided to deploy SHE Mobile toilets in dynamic routes across the city and monitor their locations, maintenance, and service from the Command Control center.

Administrative  issues such  as  projections on recurring costs for sustained maintenance of project and optimising  human resource, involving women forums of HCSC & SCSC,etc.,were discussed at length.

Addl.CP(Crimes & SIT), Mr.A.R. Srinivas; Addl.CP Traffic, Mr.G.Sudheer Babu; staff officers of IT cell and other officials of various Govt departments were present.