Warangal police maintain 24-hour surveillance at railway stations to curb interstate thieves

Warangal police commissionerate has formed four special teams to curb interstate burglary and chain-snatching gangs. Deployed at Warangal and Kazipet railway stations, the squads will coordinate with GRP and RPF and use surveillance tools to track suspects and prevent crimes.

Hanamkonda: In view of recent burglaries and chain-snatching incidents under the limits of Warangal police commissionerate, Commissioner of Police Sanpreet Singh has come up with a plan of action to check interstate thieves.

Police investigating the cases have confirmed that over the past few days, criminals primarily those hailing from other States (specifically North India) were involved in both house burglaries and chain-snatching incidents under commissionerate limits.

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As Warangal and Kazipet railway stations connect all States across the country; criminals were using these rail routes to reach the city, commit various thefts and to flee to their native places using the same route.

In a first of its kind initiative in Telangana, four special police teams led by additional DCP (Crimes) Balaswamy and ACP (CCS) Sadaiah have been set up with the dual objective of preemptively identifying interstate thieves and curbing thefts.

Two teams each would be deployed at Warangal and Kazipet railway stations; they would work in coordination with the Government Railway Police (GRP) and the Railway Protection Force (RPF).

The members of the teams would identify suspicious individuals among passengers arriving at the respective railway stations, travellers who have reached the city through various routes across the country, particularly from North India.

Further facial recognition systems would be used to cross-reference the fingerprints and facial profiles of these suspects against the national database of criminals, besides checking luggage of suspects and collecting their complete personal details.

If any individual was found to have previously committed a crime, their details would be transmitted to the technical devices used by the police. Following the alert notification, the police would immediately take the suspects into custody and shift them to the police station.

While conducting the inspections, the teams would record and archive the complete details of all suspicious individuals. Comprising four members per unit, the special teams have been working in shifts at the railway stations to effectively check the activities of interstate criminals.