ICCC work still in progress; Hyderabad CP monitors immersion from old headquarters

HYDERABAD: With work on the Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC), recently inaugurated at Banjara Hills in the city, still in progress, the Hyderabad city police, led by police commissioner C.V. Anand monitored the Ganesh immersion procession from its old headquarters at Basheerbagh.

The statewide CCTV surveillance and emergency response mechanism is yet to be installed at the ICCC. Senior officials used the video wall which has been in use for years at the Basheerbagh office.

Director General of Police M. Mahendar Reddy monitored the processions across the state from his office at Lakdikapul. Officials from all government departments including GHMC, electricity, transport, water board, health and at least 10 other departments, sat at city police's Basheerbagh office to coordinate a response to developing situations.

The commissioners of Rachakonda and Cyberabad police also monitored the processions from the command control centres at their offices, apart from touring the procession routes and immersion points.

Later in the evening, home minister Mohd Mahmood Ali along with minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav, Mahendar Reddy and Anand inspected the processions from a helicopter.