Contact Hyderabad City Police through WhatsApp or Facebook

Many celebrities and politicians are reachable on Twitter, if not anywhere else, where our External Affairs Minister, SushmaSwaraj also reverts within 48-72 hours. Joining the list is Hyderabad City Police and releases Hyderabad traffic police WhatsApp number

Hyderabad City Police has released an impressive poster on WhatsApp that urges people to make use of social media to connect with them. Citizens can get in touch with the Police through multiple applications – WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter for information, Hawk Eye app that works as a tool for citizen policing, Hyderabad Traffic Live mobile app - for traffic updates and Lost Report app that helps you secure lost reports.

The NewIndianExpress conducted an experiment to check how responsive the department is? Though they didn't receive any response on Twitter and received a delayed response on WhatsApp, the important thing is "it is working".

This is what Hyderabad traffic police did:

"Hyderabad Police is always ‘Online’ on WhatsApp on the number – 94906 16555. We sent them a question – “Hello, I am a resident of Tarnaka and I want to know what is the protocol to lodge a complaint against my neighbors digging more than one bore well. Please help.

“Though the status of the number showed online, they didn’t respond for the next 20 minutes. So, we sent the same message via Facebook messenger. The page described them to be ‘very responsive’ to messages. True to that, they replied in the next two minutes, “Good evening madam, can we have the exact location where you reside?”

We shared further details and they directed us to the Cyberabad Police Limits. “Madam as your residing location comes under Cyberabad police limits contact them on their Facebook page or on their WhatsApp number 9490617444(sic),” along with the link to Cyberabad’s Facebook page. By this time, we also received the same question and reply to the WhatsApp number"

The point of this entire discussion is that you can indeed connect online and file a police complaint in Hyderabad via Facebook or WhatsApp.

Social media is a potent tool that offers police departments a way to connect with citizens and know what is being said about the department, crime, the quality of life, and events. Hyderabad cyber crime WhatsApp number will help police and public both to reduce the crime and report the crime ASAP.

According to a social media survey <2013> from the International Association of Chiefs of Police, 95.9 percent of police departments use social media to an extent, more than 80.4 percent say it has helped them solve crimes, and 73.1 percent of agencies said it helped improve police-community relationships in their jurisdiction. The most frequently used social media platforms are Facebook (92.1 percent), Twitter (percent), and YouTube (42.9 percent).