Hyderabad, Sept.15 (Maxim News): The Hyderabad City Police has launched a specialized wing — City Rapid Action Force (CRAF) — created to deal with riots, riot like situations, crowd control, rescue and relief operations and unrest.
City Police Commissioner Anjani Kumar, IPS, inaugurated the CRAF. He said young personnel with quick body reflexes, maturity and unbiased views were selected to form the wing. They have a distinctive uniform and have to act in zero response time. The force currently has 40 personnel (20 male and 20 female) specialized trained officers of the rank of police constables. The Motto of the wing is “Serving Humanity with Sensitive Policing”.
The force was equipped with non-lethal weapons for dispersing the crowd with minimum harm and losses. The CRAF people are kept always in readiness for rapid deployment wheneve situation demands. The CRAF will be deployed only by the Commissioner of Police on specific duties only and normally not deployed for long duration.
This unit will be used to deal with communal violence, law and order duties, festival and election duties and agitations. CRAF will be projected as a human face of Hyderabad City Police to build a bridge with the public by carrying out prompt rescue and relief operations as and when required.
A mock drill to control riots, using different methods like warning, tear gas, water cannon, lathi-charge and mounted police using batons was performed. The Commissioner said the vision of the Police department was to make Hyderabad a Safe and Smart City. He emphasized the need for creating a partnership between Police and the Public through Community Policing for building a safe, secure and stable society. He also interacted with the CRAF teams and explained them about their designated duties.
Anil Kumar, IPS, Addl. CP (Traffic), Shika Goel, IPS, Addl. CP (Crimes), D.S. Chauhan, IPS, Addl. CP (Law & Order) and Murali Krishna, IPS, Addl. CP (Admn) Hyderabad and DCPs, Addl. DCPs and subordinate staff of Hyderabad City Police attended the program. (Maxim News)
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