Chief Minister releases book on 'Journey of Hyderabad City Police'

Hyderabad: Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao on Saturday at Pragati Bhavan has released the Coffee Table Book, “Journey of the Hyderabad city police” written by well known writer Noopur Kumar.

Beautiful oil paintings on the progress of the City Police network since its inception till date was compiled in the book. In the book, it was explained in a racy style about the journey made by the city police from patrolling on bicycles to CC TV cameras, from Cycle to Cyber times and the changes that took place during the period.

The specialty of Hyderabad in the Law and Order front, Police set up in the olden times, the Kotwal system during the Qutub Shahi’s regime, the Police network during the Nizam’s rule, the great Ganga Jamuna Tehjeeb of Hyderabad where Hindu and Muslims lived in harmony, great personalities in the police, the duties and responsibilities of the City police, changes that were brought in the traffic management, new challenges in the new millennium, details of those worked as the City Police Commissioners, and a host of other subjects were dealt with in the book.

The Chief Minister congratulated Noopur Kumar for bringing out the beautiful book. Additional DGP Anjani Kumar had supervised the production of the book. DGP Anurag Sharma, Hyderabad Police Commissioner M. Mahender Reddy and Government’s Chief Advisor Rajiv Sharma participated in the programme.