Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao releases a book on city police

A coffee table book Journey of the Hyderabad City Police written by freelance writer Noopur Kumar was released by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao here on Saturday. The book is a compilation of the progress of city police since the inception till date and is embellished with oil paintings.

The journey has been explained in a racy style right from the days when the police patrolled the city thoroughfares on bicycles to the installation of CCTV cameras.

The book deals with the speciality of Hyderabad on law and order front, the Kotwal regime of policing during Qutub Shahi rule, the police network during the subsequent Nizam’s period, the great Ganga Jamuna Tehzeeb of Hyderabad where Hindu and Muslims lived in harmony and the great personalities in the Police Department.

Mr. Rao congratulated Ms. Kumar for bringing out the book. Additional DGP Anjani Kumar supervised its production. The outgoing DGP Anurag Sharma, his successor M. Mahender Reddy and Chief Advisor to Government Rajiv Sharma participated.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Hyderabad / by Special Correspondent / Hyderabad – November 11th, 2017