Police must keep people’s faith, says Telangana DGP

Hyderabad: Police force in the country has to meet the twin challenges of handling increasing diversity and complexity of crimes, and the rising public expectations, Telangana DGP Anurag Sharma said on Tuesday.

Sharma was speaking after inaugurating a day-long workshop on ‘SMART Policing’ organised by the Rao Bahadur Venkata Rama Reddy (RBVRR) Telangana State Police Academy. SMART police, as described by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, stands for strict and sensitive, modern and mobile, alert and accountable, reliable and responsive, tech-savy and trained.

People only accept a reliable police system, he said, adding the acronym, SMART, summarises the qualities a common man would seek in a policeman. Police must rise up to the expectations citizens have from them, the senior IPS officer said. Ish Kumar, Director of the Academy, said the aim of workshop was to design a road map for implementation of the concept of ‘SMART Policing’.

PTI