City police commissioner Anupam Agrawal told reporters on Saturday that as many as 850 police personnel, including officers, DCPs, ACPs, have been deployed in addition to eight teams from the City Armed Reserve (CAR) and three platoons of KSRP at sensitive areas and strategic locations, including beaches, to ensure that no untoward incidents take place.
The city police have received 36 applications seeking permission to host New Year celebrations indoors, including hotels, restaurants, resorts and churches. The permissions were accorded by placing a few conditions. All the indoor celebrations should be completed by 12.30 am.
The New Year celebrations on beaches should wind up by 10pm. To ensure that incidents of moral policing do not take place on beaches and sensitive areas, patrolling will be intensified. Further, flexes with the phone numbers of police officers, and 112 have been mounted near beaches for any assistance from the police. “There will be no scope for moral policing,” he said.
Further, lifeguards will be deployed by the tourism department at the beaches. Enough lights will also be installed at the beaches for the celebrations. As many as 66 sector mobile units have been set up which includes 17 Hoysala patrolling vehicles. Police personnel have been deployed at 106 points. Checkposts have been set up wherein traffic and civil police personnel will check for drunk and driving using breath analysers. The police will also keep a watch on anti-social elements creating a public nuisance, explained the commissioner.
Four teams will be deployed to check on the use of drugs and any activities pertaining to drug peddling and consumption. “Our priority is safety and security of the citizens,” he added.
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