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Telangana Director General of Police C.V. Anand connected Thursday called upon radical to go progressive partners successful the combat against narcotics, saying nationalist practice was indispensable to support aboriginal generations from the increasing cause menace.
Addressing the archetypal reappraisal gathering of the Elite Action Group for Drug Law Enforcement (EAGLE) unit astatine its office successful Hyderabad, the DGP said curbing cause maltreatment indispensable go a corporate work involving police, acquisition institutions and nine astatine large.
“I chose to archetypal reappraisal the EAGLE unit due to the fact that of the seriousness of the cause occupation affecting the society. Supply and depletion of narcotics continues not lone successful Telangana but crossed the world. Every idiosyncratic indispensable cooperate to extremity cause menace arsenic it is destroying the lives of younker and students,” helium said.
He added that Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy had issued strict directions to eradicate cause proviso crossed the State and stressed the request for a coordinated effort to tackle the issue.
Mr. Anand said his acquisition portion heading airdrome information successful the CISF had fixed him first-hand penetration into the standard of narcotics trafficking and underlined that specialised enforcement units unsocial could not lick the problem.
The DGP reviewed the show of the unit and directed officials to fortify enforcement done precocious technology, fiscal investigations and enactment against overseas syndicates.
Police information presented during the gathering showed a crisp summation successful enactment against drug-related offences, with lawsuit registrations rising from 1,464 successful 2023 to 2,734 successful 2025, portion arrests accrued from 3,157 to 5,703 during the aforesaid period.
Officials said Telangana’s mean of 3.1 arrests per lawsuit was importantly supra the nationalist mean of 1.3, indicating that investigations were extending beyond street-level suppliers to those allegedly orchestrating operations.
Police said 93 overseas nationals from countries including Nigeria, Ghana and Sudan had been deported arsenic portion of these operations.
Mr. Anand directed officials to support continuous surveillance implicit societal media platforms, the acheronian web and cryptocurrency transactions, portion expanding the usage of integer forensics and geo-location tracking.
The DGP besides raised concerns implicit the effect of acquisition institutions to drug-related incidents involving students. He said portion astir 4,500 anti-drug committees had been formed crossed acquisition institutions, galore were not functioning effectively.
A connection is present being prepared to found broad committees successful schools and colleges to show not lone cause maltreatment but besides ragging, cybercrime, women’s safety, kid abuse, roadworthy information and postulation violations.
Mr. Anand warned that institutions failing to study drug-related incidents could look action. “Many institutions suppress specified issues fearing reputational damage. Reporting these incidents is their cardinal responsibility. If enforcement teams observe amerciable enactment that has not been reported, enactment volition beryllium taken against the instauration arsenic well,” helium said.
The DGP said a mandatory “I Will Not Take Drugs” declaration whitethorn soon beryllium introduced for students astatine the clip of admission. He added that territory constabulary units would beryllium brought into person coordination with Eagle Force and said helium would soon circuit districts to usher officers connected cause enforcement, cybercrime and postulation management.
The reappraisal gathering was attended by Eagle Force Director Sandeep Shandilya, SPs Padmaja, Sitaram and Raghuveer, on with different elder constabulary officials.
