With the floods in the Godavari reaching an alarming level in a few districts in Andhra Pradesh, instructions have been given to the police to help the affected people move to safer places, Director General of Police K.V. Rajendranath Reddy has said.
“The police have been deployed in all the flood-hit villages. They have been directed to coordinate with the officers concerned in taking up relief operations,” Mr. Rajendranath Reddy told The Hindu on July 30 (Sunday).
Mr. Rajendranath Reddy said the situation was being regularly monitored with the Superintendents of Police of the Eluru, Konaseema, Kakinada, East Godavari and Krishna districts, and the NTR District Police Commissioner.