Telangana police has traced mobile phones, unblocked and handed over more than 1,000 lost/missing mobile devices to rightful owners in a short span of one month. The CEIR portal which is aimed to curb mobile theft and counterfeit mobiles started functioning in Telangana from April 19.
On April 13, DGP Anjani Kumar inaugurated the one-day hands-on training session for the 60 master trainers and distributed the CEIR user IDs to all the 780 police stations under the 31 police units on April 18.
Mahesh M. Bhagwat, Addl. DGP, CID, is designated as Nodal Officer for CEIR portal in the state of Telangana. The CEIR portal was developed by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT). The Telangana state was selected for the pilot project of the portal and started on April 19. The nation-wide CEIR portal was officially launched on May 17.
ADGP, CID as “Super User” is effectively monitoring the day-to-day progress of the CEIR resulting in tracing and handing over of more than 1,000 lost/missing mobiles to their rightful owners in a short span of one month i.e., from April 20 to May 22, of its launch.
All the police units have contributed in tracing of lost/stolen mobile phones. However, considerable contributions have come from Cyberabad Commissionarate with 149 mobile devices, Warangal Commissionarate with 91 mobile devices and Kamareddy district with 79 mobile devices.
In view of the notable achievement by the Telangana police, in coordination with DoT, to serve the citizens of Telangana more user-friendly, an integration of CEIR application with CCTNS citizen portal has been completed and it is appealed to the citizens of Telangana to utilise this service on Citizen Portal without visiting to Mee Seva/Police Station for lost/missing of mobile devices.
K Rajashekar, DDG, Security, Murali Krishna, Director, Security and Raghava Reddy, Addl. Director, are assisting with Dr Lavanya Jadhav, SP, Cyber Crimes, CID, and other police officials in usage of CEIR application.
DGP Anjani kumar has appreciated all for the citizen-friendly services.
