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The Telangana Police person enactment successful spot extended information arrangements up of the Urban Local Bodies (ULB) elections-2026 scheduled to beryllium held connected Wednesday (February 11, 2026), covering 7 municipal corporations and 116 municipalities crossed the State.
Director General of Police, B. Shivadhar Reddy, said connected Tuesday (February 10, 2026) that elaborate bandobust arrangements were made for a full of 8,203 polling stations, of which 1,302 were classified arsenic hyper-sensitive, 1,926 arsenic delicate and 4,975 arsenic normal. To guarantee creaseless behaviour of the polling, much than 3,000 further unit drawn from the Telangana State Police, Forest, Excise, CID, Legal Metrology and different departments were deployed.
The Model Code of Conduct has been successful unit crossed each constabulary commissionerates and districts, but Hyderabad, since January 27, 2026. As portion of preventive measures, 1,183 licence arms were deposited, 4,318 persons were bound implicit for bully behaviour and 398 non-bailable warrants were executed oregon recalled, the authoritative informed.
Border surveillance excessively was intensified. A full of 20 interstate borderline cheque posts were established on Telangana’s borders with 4 States, portion 18 interstate border-sharing units were identified astatine the Wanaparthy border. Of these, cheque posts connected the Telangana broadside are operational on the Maharashtra borderline astatine 5 locations, Karnataka astatine 5 locations, Andhra Pradesh astatine 8 locations and Chhattisgarh astatine 2 locations.
Additionally, 55 inter-district and intra-district borderline cheque posts were acceptable up, supported by 181 Flying Squads and 167 Static Surveillance Teams moving connected the ground.
The constabulary said focused grooming programmes connected the effectual implementation of the Model Code of Conduct were conducted astatine the Station House Officer, circle, part and portion levels crossed the State.
Significant seizures were reported during the enforcement drive. Total seizures were valued astatine ₹3.09 crore crossed 988 FIRs. Cash seizures unsocial accounted for ₹1.29 crore successful 4 cases, portion liquor worthy ₹1.21 crore was seized successful 756 cases. Drugs valued astatine ₹15.7 lakh were seized successful 18 cases, freebies worthy ₹13 lakh successful 13 cases and precious metals worthy implicit ₹28.69 lakh. In all, 142 cases were registered nether the Model Code of Conduct.
The soundless play began astatine 5 p.m. connected February 9, with constabulary visibly expanding patrolling and beingness successful susceptible areas. Officials said 100% webcasting was ensured wrong each polling stations, with further sum extracurricular hyper-sensitive booths.
At the Telangana Police Headquarters successful Lakdikapool, a dedicated bid and power centre was established, featuring a ample video partition streaming unrecorded webcasts from cameras installed crossed the State. Senior constabulary officials are monitoring the feeds successful existent time, keeping a changeless ticker connected polling stations and delicate locations to alteration swift involution successful the lawsuit of immoderate untoward incident. The Telangana constabulary person appealed to each voters to travel retired and workout their franchise freely and fearlessly connected polling day.
