hyderabad bamboozled in their own den employees of greater hyderabad municipal corporation ghmc are tearing their hair while wondering who is stealing their mobile phones jackets earphones phone chargers tv remote and other accessories a harried ghmc after a brainstorming session has decided to bolster security apart from installing cctv cameras on corridors and all sections as a deterrentthe exact number of cctv cameras to be installed is yet to be decided as on date there are 50 cameras within the ghmc head office but many of those are not working said officialswe are surprised at the precision of the thieves and how they have been carrying out the crime without even getting detected for the past one month its almost like ghosts but we are hoping to catch them soon said a senior ghmc officialwe are hoping to install several cameras in secret locations he addedthe thieves did not even spare the media centre a tv remote mouse and keyboard were missing in the hall where prajavani is conductedturns out the situation is worse in other sections ghmc wings located on different floors of the sevenstorey buildinge prakash a ghmc official working in the printing section located in the ground floor lost his phone m bhasker who works in the control room lost his charger and sudheer v another staffer lost his jacketsudheer v had hung his jacket on the chair by the time he got back to his seat his jacket was missing said one of his colleaguesa civic official said they were now even afraid to charge their phones and leave their seats while the phone was still on chargewe generally rush to the officers cabin with the file forgetting about the mobile phone and thieves are taking advantage of the situation a lot of people as well as staffers from different wings visit the ghmc head office so it is very difficult to catch the thief we are now scared to charge our phones and leave our desk said another official they are convinced that installing cameras will reduce such incidentswe are installing cctv cameras in the head office as there is no restricted entry and it is difficult to find the culprit said musharraf ali faruqui ghmc additional commissioner of it winghowever ali denied that the cameras were being installed exclusively to catch the thieves he said it was a pending proposal though its not exclusively to catch the thieves installation of cameras will reduce such incidents said ali