<p class="title">Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy, on Friday, made surprise visits to four police stations in the city to review policing work.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He also checked if his men observed the 31-points he enumerated as checklists for the police soon after he became the home minister.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Reddy along with city police commissioner T Suneel Kumar and additional commissioner of police east zone Seemanth Kumar Singh, visited Cubbon Park, Ashok Nagar, Halasuru and Indiranagar police stations.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He also visited Halasuru traffic police station.</p>.<p class="bodytext">At Cubbon Park police station, he examined CCTV footage of 18 junctions and was briefed on the use of the CCTV monitoring by DCP Chandragupta.</p>.<p class="bodytext">At Halasuru police station, he lambasted the police officers for keeping the station untidy. Dusty seized vehicles welcomed the minister. Reddy told the commissioner to issue notices to untidy police stations.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The minister also went through station diaries to check for the types of crimes and instructed the police inspectors to round up goondas and book cases against eve-teasers near schools by increasing the beats around the institutions.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He ordered shutting of pubs and liquor shops before the deadline, closure of illegal recreation clubs, and booking of cases under COPTA for selling cigarettes and tobacco near educational institutions.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The minister also instructed the traffic police to streamline autorickshaw parking.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Reddy asked the police to come down heavily on the drug menace and chain snatching incidents.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The minister also interacted with lower rung personnel and inquired about their welfare. He also said the complaint box at police stations should be placed outside.</p>.<p class="byline">DH News Service</p>
<p class="title">Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy, on Friday, made surprise visits to four police stations in the city to review policing work.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He also checked if his men observed the 31-points he enumerated as checklists for the police soon after he became the home minister.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Reddy along with city police commissioner T Suneel Kumar and additional commissioner of police east zone Seemanth Kumar Singh, visited Cubbon Park, Ashok Nagar, Halasuru and Indiranagar police stations.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He also visited Halasuru traffic police station.</p>.<p class="bodytext">At Cubbon Park police station, he examined CCTV footage of 18 junctions and was briefed on the use of the CCTV monitoring by DCP Chandragupta.</p>.<p class="bodytext">At Halasuru police station, he lambasted the police officers for keeping the station untidy. Dusty seized vehicles welcomed the minister. Reddy told the commissioner to issue notices to untidy police stations.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The minister also went through station diaries to check for the types of crimes and instructed the police inspectors to round up goondas and book cases against eve-teasers near schools by increasing the beats around the institutions.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He ordered shutting of pubs and liquor shops before the deadline, closure of illegal recreation clubs, and booking of cases under COPTA for selling cigarettes and tobacco near educational institutions.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The minister also instructed the traffic police to streamline autorickshaw parking.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Reddy asked the police to come down heavily on the drug menace and chain snatching incidents.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The minister also interacted with lower rung personnel and inquired about their welfare. He also said the complaint box at police stations should be placed outside.</p>.<p class="byline">DH News Service</p>
