Sunday, 22 December 2013

Centre's move to separate greyhounds training and operation not a good option

U Sudhakar Reddy
Centre’s proposal to separate the control over Greyhounds training 
centre and Greyhounds operational hubs has raised many an eyebrows among the top police 
officials and anti naxal experts who strongly feel that it may backfire in managing 
naxals.

Centre has proposed in AP Reorganisation Bill tabled in State Legislative Assembly on 
Monday three years Ministry of Home Affairs will maintain and administer the Greyhounds 
Regional Training Centre at Premavathipet in Hyderabad. It will be a common training 
centre for the successor States and after three years it will become training centre of 
Telangana. However Greyhounds units will be under control of successor State police 
headed by respective director generals of police.
Centre in the bills said that it would fund anti naxal fight by giving financial 
assistance to new operational hubs of elite anti naxal commando force , Greyhounds ,  in 
the two states of Telangana and AP.
The move of Centre to take over the Greyhounds Training Centre in Hyderabad is stir up a 
controversy as police feel that it is difficult as both training and operations are 
interlinked.
A senior police official said,”Greyhounds training and operations are interlinked. It is 
very difficult to segregate operations and training and it may yield negative results,”
According to bill “Centre shall assist the successor State of AP to set up a similar 
state-of the-art training centre at such place as the State government order notify. The 
Greyhound and OCTOPUS forces of the existing State of Andhra Pradesh shall be distributed 
between the successor States after seeking options from the personnel and, each of these 
forces..,” . Greyhounds headquarters and officers quarters are situated in Gandipet in 
the city.   Vishakapatnam has a regional hub of Greyhounds.

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