Vizag gets new coastal police hub to boost security, intelligence operations

Visakhapatnam: In a significant step toward strengthening the maritime defense and surveillance framework of the state, the new Coastal Security Police building in Visakhapatnam was formally inaugurated on Tuesday by Andhra Pradesh DGP Harish Kumar Gupta. The state-of-the-art facility is designed to serve as a nerve center for coastal monitoring, intelligence gathering, and rapid response operations along the state’s extensive coastline.The inaugural ceremony was attended by Inspector General of Police (IGP), Gopinath Jatti IPS, Coastal Security Police and Police Officials of Coastal Security Police. DGP Harish Kumar Gupta has reviewed the functioning of the coastal security police and preventive measures taken at beaches, beach patrolling details, lives savings, community outreach programmes, village vigilance committees performance and its impact, functioning of special intelligence unit in coastal security, equipment and vehicles available in the coastal security wing.The DGP also reviewed the induction of three platoons of APSP, awareness programmes on environmental conservation(olive ridley turtles), drug awareness programmes, night halts, flag hoisting on islands, naval NCC and appreciated the initiatives taken by coastal security police and assured to provide all the necessary infrastructure and other requirements to further strengthen the coastal security police.