Hyderabad: The Perils of Importing ‘Hi-Tech Policing’ Without the Necessary Safeguards


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Policing in Hyderabad has changed over the last few years after the formation of Telangana. Since the 1990s, it is the transnational demands of globalisation that determined how policing practices are carried out in Hyderabad. As a developed region in India, Hyderabad became the testing ground for many of the experiments for digitisation. The present practices of electronic policing in Hyderabad were borrowed from a tiny eastern European nation Estonia. Their goal of a safe Hyderabad is rather a demand for a “brand Hyderabad” to the police department as well.