Police chiefs and senior officers from the southern States and Union Territories will meet in Hyderabad today to strengthen coordination and plan joint action against cross-border crime.

 

Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy will attend the Southern Regional Police Coordination Committee meeting as chief guest. Directors-General and Inspectors-General of Police from Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Keralam will take part. Representatives from Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Puducherry and Lakshadweep will also attend. Senior officials from central agencies, including the Intelligence Bureau, CBI, NIA, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, CISF, BSF and CRPF, will join the meeting.

 

The agenda includes terrorism, the security situation after Maoist activity, drug trafficking, inter-State cybercrime, organised crime, economic offences, youth protests and human trafficking.

 

Officers will also review the movement of inter-State criminal gangs and ways to improve the sharing of intelligence. Other topics include implementation of the new criminal laws, coastal security, road accident prevention and the use of artificial intelligence in policing.