Overview
- Hyderabad Police ordered the transfer and posting of 54 inspectors across law and order, traffic, security and specialised units with immediate effect, following approval by the Police Establishment Board.
- The changes move multiple SHOs between key stations in the Old City, Central and West Zones and assign several inspectors to traffic police stations and the Central Crime Station.
- The inspector reshuffle follows a government order transferring about 20 IPS officers, including Gajarao Bhupal to IGP Provisioning & Logistics with additional charge of Sports & Welfare and Abhishek Mohanty to DIG Vigilance & Enforcement.
- Young IPS officers were placed in traffic leadership across Hyderabad, Cyberabad, Malkajgiri and the new Future City commissionerate, including Avinash Kumar and Kajal in Hyderabad, S. Sheshadrini Reddy in Cyberabad, Kankanala Rahul Reddy in Malkajgiri, Shivam Upadhyay in Future City, B.K. Rahul Hegde as DCP Traffic-III in Hyderabad, and J. Ranjan Rathan Kumar overseeing Cyberabad’s Traffic-I with control of the RITAM cell, e-challan and road safety.
- Senior postings strengthened intelligence and enforcement with R. Bhaskaran as DIG CI Cell (Intelligence), K. Apoorva Rao as SP Intelligence, B. Bala Swamy as SP Vigilance & Enforcement, R. Venkateshwarlu as SP CID and S. Chaitanya Kumar as DCP Crimes, while DGP briefings tasked new traffic heads with congestion plans and A. Balakoti was told to report to the DGP office pending further orders.