Comprehensive security audit proposed at Tirumala

TIRUPATI: A high-level meeting on security audit was held at Annamayya Bhavan in Tirumala on Tuesday in the presence of Sri Harish Kumar Gupta, Andhra Pradesh principal secretary (Home).
Top officials from both TTD and police department and other uniform forces participated in the meeting to discuss on how to enhance the security setup in Tirumala in view of increased pilgrim and vehicular traffic post pandemic.
The principal secretary (Home) said all the security forces should be brought under a single command.
Earlier, both the chief vigilance and security officer of TTD D Narasimha Kishore and Tirupati SP Parameshwar Reddy made a powerpoint presentation separately giving a detailed picture about the existing security setup with respect to Tirumala, its precincts and the areas where the security need to be beefed up.
DIG Anantapuram Range Ammi Reddy, OSD ISW Sasidhar Reddy, many other officials from state intelligence bureau, intelligence security wing, Octopus, SPF, district police and other departments took part.