Telangana Police’s Hawk Eye mobile app has been selected for National e-Governance Gold Award for 2016-17 under the category of Innovative Use of Mobile Phone Technology in e-Governance. The Award is instituted by Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances and Department of Electronics and Information Technology, GoI. Commissioner, Hyderabad Police received the Award from Union Minister of State, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology Sri PP Chowdary at the National Conference on e-Governance held on January 9 & 10, 2017 at Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. Hawk Eye App was the only eGov initiative from a Police Department out of all the 20 Awardees selected under 12 categories.