Hyd Metro: Pvt security to guard Nagole-Miyapur stretch

Hyderabad Metro Rail Ltd (HMRL) today said security personnel from private security service agencies will man the metro stations on the Nagole-Miyapur stretch.
This stretch is scheduled for inauguration later this month.
However, a Metro security wing with over 2,000 personnel for the 72-km elevated HMRL project, will be systematically built up over the next one year as a well organised unit which includes even armed components like quick response team (QRT), bomb disposal squad (BDS), dog squad, a release from HMRL said.
After Telangana Chief Secretary S P Singh conducted two meetings on security related issues for the metro project with Director General of Police M Mahendar Reddy, three Commissioners of Police of the city recently, the officials arrived at a total requirement of 2,078 police personnel including police officials, home guards/private security guards to be deployed by HMRL.

The Force will consist of one Deputy Commissioner of Police, one Additional DCP, two ACPs and four inspectors at supervisory level, it said.
Apart from locating the main metro security office in Metro Rail Bhavan, two Metro Rail Police stations will be created at Ameerpet and Parade Grounds interchange stations, it said.

"For the immediate requirement of the inaugural 30 km (Nagole-Miyapur stretch) and 24 metro rail stations, HMRL has been requested by the DGP to quickly appoint well experienced private security service agencies to provide 546 security personnel.
"These HMRL security personnel and the L&T Metro Rail Hyderabad, (which is developing the HMRL project) security personnel at the metro rail stations will be working under three uniformed police officials per station in each shift," it said.

While government police assisted by the security personnel hired by HMRL will take care of all the offences, the DGP has decided that police stations of the three city police commissionerates will provide overall security to all HMR stations falling in their limits for the time being.
The Concessionaire (L&T Metro Rail Hyderabad) has already installed CCTV cameras at all metro stations and in trains giving 360 degree coverage, baggage scanners, door frame metal detectors, hand-held metal detectors, etc.
The Concessionaire through its security personnel will perform CCTV monitoring, queueing and maintaining orderly conduct of passengers, depot security, signal tower security, preventing intrusion on to the metro Rail track, it said.

HMRL has already called for and opened tenders for appointment of security agencies and the same will be finalised in a day or two, the release added.
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to inaugurate the first phase of HMR project, while he is in the city to attend the Global Entrepreneurship Summit from November 28 to 30.