Top Cops Moot Joint Watch on Rowdy-Sheeters, Traffic Snarls

 Hyderabad: City police commissioner V.C. Sajjanar on Wednesday urged the tri commissionerates to treat crime control as a borderless responsibility and enforce the ‘Zero Delay’ policy without exception.

Speaking at a crime coordination meeting with senior officials at the Telangana Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC), Banjara Hills, he said jurisdictional boundaries must never slow down law and order response. “The nearest police unit should act immediately, irrespective of commissionerate limits. Victims deserve zero delay,” he said.

Cyberabad commissioner Avinash Mohanty, Rachakonda commissioner G. Sudhir Babu and other senior officers who attended the meeting focused on crime patterns, traffic issues and the movement of offenders across commissionerates. The officers said criminals increasingly commit offences in one jurisdiction and flee to another, exploiting gaps in coordination.

Sajjanar stressed on seamless communication among field staff to prevent offenders from escaping. He directed the three commissionerates to maintain joint surveillance on rowdy sheeters and habitual offenders, share intelligence in real time and track those who frequently change residences.

On traffic management, the commissioners agreed to uniformly enforce ‘no entry’ timings for heavy vehicles, especially during peak hours, and ensure such vehicles remain outside city limits. They also decided to conduct joint weekend checks to prevent drug traffickers from shifting between jurisdictions.

Special drives will be held simultaneously across all three commissionerates to clear pending challans. Traffic units at border junctions were instructed to coordinate signal timings in real time to ease congestion. Sajjanar also flagged the growing problems of private buses contributing to traffic chaos and called for a coordinated long term solution.

“When criminals have no borders, neither should the police. Though we are three commissionerates, our goal is one — a safe Hyderabad,” Sajjanar said. “Only by working as a single force and using technology can we curb crime.”

Mohanty said rapid expansion of the city, especially in the IT corridor and financial district, makes inter commissionerate coordination essential. Sudhir Babu added that joint teams and constant information exchange are key to tracking old offenders and tackling activities such as ganja trafficking.

Additional commissioner M. Srinivas, Joint CPs Tafseer Iqbal, Joel Davis and Gajarao Bhupal, along with DCPs from all three commissionerates, were present, said an official release.