Key Takeaways:
- Telangana issues GO Rt. No. 1816 (29 December 2025) to reorganise Hyderabad policing under a new plan of reorganisation.
- The new Future City Police Commissionerate will focus on upcoming urban expansions and smart city projects, improving policing for IT corridors and townships.
- Malkajgiri commissionerate created for more localised response; Cyberabad reshaped with renewed emphasis on cybersecurity and coordination with industry.
- A separate Yadadri Bhongir police district established to handle pilgrimage, rural policing and crowd management.
The Telangana government has issued a sweeping reorganisation of the Hyderabad policing architecture, creating new commissionerates and a standalone district unit to meet fast-changing urban and regional demands. The order, GO Rt. No. 1816 dated 29 December 2025, reassigns senior Indian Police Service officers and redraws jurisdictions to improve responsiveness, streamline administration and strengthen security in the Greater Hyderabad area.
Hyderabad police reorganisation to meet urban expansion
At the centre of the exercise is the newly formed Future City Police Commissionerate, designed to serve emerging residential townships, industrial hubs and IT corridors on the city’s outskirts. G Sudheer Babu, an IPS officer of the 2001 batch who formerly served as Commissioner of Police for Rachakonda, has been posted to lead the Future City commissionerate and will oversee policing for planned urban growth and smart city initiatives.
Officials say the creation of a Future City unit aims to anticipate the policing needs of large-scale development projects and residential expansion, allowing for specialised traffic management, surveillance coordination and community engagement tailored to greenfield developments.
In the east of the metropolitan area, the Rachakonda Police Commissionerate has been reorganised and partly bifurcated to form the Malkajgiri Police Commissionerate. Avinash Mohanthy, IPS of the 2005 batch and previously Commissioner of Police for Cyberabad, has been reassigned to head the new Malkajgiri unit. The change is intended to deliver more localised policing in densely populated suburbs such as Malkajgiri and Uppal and to reduce administrative burdens on larger jurisdictions.
Cyberabad, which covers major technology hubs including HITEC City and Gachibowli, has been reshaped as part of the exercise to better manage the westward expansion of Hyderabad. M Ramesh, IPS of the 2005 batch with experience in provisioning and logistics, takes charge as Commissioner of the reorganised Cyberabad. His posting is expected to sharpen the commissionerate’s focus on cybersecurity, surveillance systems and operational coordination with the IT industry.
Separately, the government has created an independent police district for Yadadri Bhongir, detaching it from the urban-centric arrangements. Akshansh Yadav, IPS of the 2019 batch who served as Deputy Commissioner there, has been promoted and posted as Superintendent of Police for the new district. Authorities say a standalone unit will allow policing strategies better suited to Yadadri Bhongir’s semi-rural character and its role as a growing pilgrimage centre, improving crowd management, rural law enforcement and local community policing.
The reorganisation reflects Telangana’s broader agenda to modernise its police force amid a period of rapid economic growth and urbanisation. By distributing workload across specialised commissionerates and smaller administrative units, the government expects improved response times, more effective crime and traffic management, and closer industry collaboration on cyber and critical infrastructure security.
Officials emphasise that the changes are operational and administrative, aimed at strengthening public safety while allowing senior officers to focus on specific challenges in their new jurisdictions. Observers say the success of the restructure will depend on the speed of implementation, resources allocated to the new units and sustained coordination between city, suburban and rural policing teams.
