14000 security personnel to be deployed for Lok Sabha polls in Hyderabad

City police commissioner K Sreenivasa Reddy said that 14,000 personnel including Central Armed Police Forces will be deployed in the Hyderabad commissionerate for the upcoming Lok Sabha election.

Speaking to media persons on Monday, the Hyderabad commissioner said that as per guidelines of the Election Commission of India



(ECI), the central force personnel will be deployed at critical polling stations in the city.

The Election Commission has provided 22 companies of central police to Hyderabad and special focus is on ASD (Absent Shifted and Dead) polling stations which have been categorized as critical spots, said the Hyderabad police commissioner.