More than 4 lakh students trained in self-defence in A.P., says DGP

Around 4.06 lakh women and girls person been trained done self-defence courses successful Andhra Pradesh, said Director General of Police (DGP) Harish Kumar Gupta.

The DGP, who inaugurated the bureau of the Women and Child Safety Wing astatine Tadepalli connected Thursday, directed the constabulary to enactment pugnacious connected those who edifice to transgression against women.

He said that grooming successful self-defence was imparted to students successful 12,873 schools and 1,315 colleges successful the State. The constabulary officers were visiting acquisition institutions and creating consciousness connected transgression against women and children, rights of victims, however to study and publication the guilty, the DGP said.

Victims tin ‘Dial 112’ oregon nonstop Whatsapp messsages connected 79934 85111, and the Sakthi Teams volition respond immediately. Vigil has been stepped up successful precocious hazard areas, Mr. Gupta said.

“From June 2024 to November 2025, accused were convicted successful 410 cases including the POCSO, intersexual abuse, pack rape, kidnap, murder, dowry harassment and different cases connected transgression against women,” the DGP said.

Later, the DGP released brochures connected women’s safety, on with Crime Investigation Department (CID) DGP Ravi Shankar Ayyanar, Additional-DGP N. Madhusudhan Reddy, IGP M. Ravi Prakash, IGP (Women Safety) B. Raja Kumari, Women Cell officers V. Ratna and N. Sridevi Rao and different officers.