Hyderabad, June 14 -- Eighty community volunteers were on Sunday, June 14, certified as Margadarshaks - trained safety ambassadors who will work alongside the city police - as the Hyderabad City Security Council (HCSC) launched the programme's second batch, which has already enrolled 280 participants.

The ceremony at TGICCC auditorium in Banjara Hills marked both a milestone and an expansion for the initiative, which trains citizens in public safety, emergency response, women's safety and cyber awareness and deploys them as a bridge between residents and police support systems such as SHE Teams, Bharosa Centres and Cyber Crime units.

New push

Hyderabad Police Commissioner VC Sajjanar, who chairs the HCSC, used the occasion to announce ...