All police stations in Telangana will have social media accounts in the New Year for communicating with people on a daily basis, a top official said today. "All police stations will maintain a Facebook page and a Twitter handle to keep communicating with the community and reporting the activities to the respective community on a daily basis," state Director General of Police M Mahender Reddy said.

"We are declaring 2018 as the year of technology and citizen-friendly initiatives for the Telangana police. That means, all police wings in Telangana will implement technology and citizen friendly initiatives in the coming year in a planned way and in a mission-mode," he told reporters here. The initiatives would be taken to the people and partnerships will be built with them, the top cop added. He released a document, 'Annual Plan-2018', on what the police is going to do in the next year. As per the plan, the community CCTV project will be extended to all urban centres and a social media lab would be set up in all the districts based on a feasibility study. At present, preventive action is initiated to ensure law and order in Hyderabad by monitoring social media, Reddy said.