Telangana Police has traced, unblocked and handed over more than 1,000 Lost or missing mobile devices to rightful owners in just one month.
Hyderabad(May, 22) : The CEIR Portal which is aimed to curb mobile theft and counterfeit mobiles started functioning in Telangana from 19.4.2023.
On 13.4.2023, Anjani Kumar-IPS, DGP, Telangana 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 18.4.2023.
Mahesh M. Bhagwat, IPS, Addl. DGP, CID, Telangana is designated as Nodal Officer for CEIR portal in the state of Telangana. The CEIR Portal was developed by the Department of Tele-Communications (DoT). The Telangana state was selected for Pilot project of the portal and started on 19.4.2023. The National wide CEIR portal was officially launched on 17.5.2023.
Mahesh M Bhagwat-IPS, Addl. DGP, CID, Telangana
ADGP, CID as “Super User” effectively monitoring the day to day progress of the CEIR resulting in tracing and handing over of more than 1,000 lost or missing mobiles to their rightful owners in a short span of one month i.e., from 20-04-2023 to 22-05-2023 of its launch.
The following is the consolidated data (20-04-2023 to 22-05-2023) of the CEIR portal of the state of Telangana.
No. of Mobile Devices blocked- 16011 No. of traceability Reports received with percentage – 4226 (26.39%) No. of Devices unblocked and handed over to rightful owners with percentage- 1016 (24.05%)
All the Police Units have contributed in tracing of lost or 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 above notable achievement by 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 utilize this service on Citizen Portal without visiting to Mee Seva/ Police Station for lost or missing of Mobile Devices.
K. Rajashekar, DDG Security, Murali Krishna, Director Security. Raghava Reddy, Addl. Director are assisting with Dr. Lavanya Jadhav, SP, Cyber Crimes, CID, and other Police officials in usage of CEIR application. DGP Telangana Anjani kumar-IPS has appreciated all for this citizen friendly services.
