KCR Pats City Police For Bagging National E-Gov Gold Award

Hyderabad: CM KCR today congratulated the Hyderabad City and TS Police for achieving National eGovernance Gold Award from the Union Ministry of Administrative Reforms.

KCR said, “We are proud of Telangana Police for their use of digital technologies and information communication technology to enhance quality of service to citizens and performance of duty in maintaining public safety and security through persistent efforts in maintaining law and order in the State."

The Hyderabad City Police is the only one in the country among all the Recipients of Awards in National eGovernance Awards this year. Out of 261 nominations from across all Government Organizations, both State and Central in 12 categories, 20 initiatives have been finally selected for the awards. Hyderabad City Police  HawkEye was one among them.

HawkEye has become successful in empowering the community to become Citizen Police. The Ministry of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances of the Government of India has recognized the impact and outreach of this app in the community.

At a two-day National Convention titled “Transforming India” held at Vishakhapatnam, the Ministry conferred the National Gold Award for Hyderabad Police Mobile IT Application HawkEye. It is the only Police IT Initiative in the country that was recognized by the Government of India from among the 261 contenders in 12 different categories in its latest round of Awards for the year 2016 under the category ‘’Innovative Use of Mobile Technology in e-governance”. The Award comprises of a Citation, a Memento and cash of Rs 2 lakh.