Palnadu police bag top CEIR award for recovering lost mobile phones

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) conferred the Central Equipment Identification Registration (CEIR) Awards to police departments in Palnadu, NTR and Eluru districts for securing the top three positions in the recovery of lost or missing mobile phones.

DoT Deputy Director General (DDG) Hemant Rathwe (Security) and Director General of Police (DGP) Harish Kumar Gupta presented awards to Palnadu district Superintendent of Police (SP) B. Krishna Rao, NTR Police Commissioner SV Rajasekhar Babu and Eluru district SP K. Pratap Shiva Kishore in Mangalagiri on Saturday.

While Palnadu district police stood first by recovering 4,303 (69.75%) lost mobile phones, NTR Commissionerate stood second by recovering 2,929 (64%) phones. Eluru district police secured the third position by recovering 2,796 (62.18%) phones using the CEIR platform.

Additional Director General of Police (ADGP-Law and Order) N. Madhusudhan Reddy, Inspector General of Police (IGP-Operations) Ch. Srikanth, DoT Director (Security) K. Ram Manohar and other officials were present.