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The Anantapur territory constabulary connected Thursday (December 4) handed implicit 1,025 recovered mobile phones, worthy ₹2.13 crore, to their owners arsenic portion of the ‘Mee Mobile – Mee Intiki’ doorstep transportation initiative.
Superintendent of Police P. Jagadeesh launched the programme astatine the District Police Office here. Following the SP’s instructions, Village Police Officers (VPOs) and section SIs from each 42 constabulary stations successful the territory visited households to manus implicit the recovered devices, bringing alleviation to persons who had mislaid their phones.
The SP said the phones were traced done complaints filed via the CEIR portal and chatbot services, with enactment from cyber and method teams utilizing IMEI-based tracking.
Mr. Jagadeesh said that ensuring the information of citizens’ spot is simply a apical precedence for the police, and the caller inaugural aims astatine delivering services much transparently, efficiently and reliably. The territory constabulary person truthful acold recovered and returned 13,619 mobile phones worthy ₹26.24 crore since the motorboat of dedicated betterment services successful June 2022.
Of the recovered devices, 1,182 were traced to different States and 2,858 to 18 districts crossed Andhra Pradesh. The recovered phones scope successful worth from ₹499 to ₹1.41 lakh.
The constabulary besides cautioned the nationalist against buying second-hand phones without bills oregon from chartless individuals astatine autobus stands, railway stations and hospitals, and urged mobile store owners to alert constabulary if idiosyncratic attempts to merchantability undocumented devices.
