Use Locked House Monitoring System, city police urge people going on vacation
The Hindu
An awareness campaign launched on the issue, says official
With Dasara holidays about to begin, many people are planning to go to their natives places. With the idea to curb possible house break-ins in the holiday season, the city police have started a campaign requesting people to use the facility of Locked House Monitoring System (LHMS).
According to Assistant Commissioner of Police (Crimes) Ch. Penta Rao, following instructions from Commissioner of Police Manish Kumar Sinha, they have started to to organise awareness campaigns. Police teams are organising meetings in various colonies as part of awareness campaigns under all police station limits in the last couple of days, he said.
More than 2.6 lakh village and ward volunteers in Andhra Pradesh, once celebrated as the government’s grassroots champions for their crucial role in implementing welfare schemes, are now in a dilemma after learning that their tenure has not been renewed after August 2023 even though they have been paid honoraria till June 2024. Disowned by both YSRCP, which was in power when they were appointed, and the current ruling TDP, which made a poll promise to double their pay, these former volunteers are ruing the day they signed up for the role which they don’t know if even still exists