Hyderabad: Mr. CV. Anand IPS, CP Hyderabad along with senior officers of Law and Order, Traffic and SB visited different parts of the city to inspect the Ganesh idol procession route. He took stock of the situation in the field in the old city, Charminar, MJ market and immersion points. Enroute arrangements, barricading, fixing low hanging wires and other works were completed.
The city police chief said that around 9523 idols (excluding idols below 3ft) were installed across the city this year and will be immersed on Friday and Saturday. Elaborate security arrangements were made along the 19 km procession route from Balapur to Hussain Sagar.
Along with staff from city police, additional staff from other districts and allied branches will also be deployed bringing the deployment of the force to that of around 24132 personnel and 122 platoons, he added. The City police will monitor the main procession route and tributary processions joining with the help of a widespread CCTV camera network, special squads and other real-time feeds. All department officers were urged to work in tandem by maintaining mutual coordination.
Multiple Quick Response Teams, dog squads, and anti-chain snatching teams, SHE teams will also be deployed. The pandal organizers, general public should also cooperate with the police and other volunteers, the police appealed. Traffic restrictions are in place for smooth movement. Apart from existing cameras, additionally 739 CCTVs were installed across the main procession routes and will be watching the movement of idols across the city and 10 drones also have been deployed in all the zones and the procession and places of immersion in and around Hussein Sagar lake . Two mobile command control centers for close supervision and 4 camera mounted vehicles will be pressed into service.
Various roads in the city which are part of the procession will either remain closed for regular traffic or will see traffic diversions.
The joint command control center having senior officers from all departments like GHMC, HMDA, Transco, water works, RTA, Medical and Health etc. will be fully operational from early hours.
Mr. DS Chauhan IPS Additional .CP. L&O, Mr. AV Ranganath IPS Jt. CP. Traffic, Mr. Sai Chaitanya DCP South zone, Mr. Karunakar DCP Traffic accompanied CP Mr. Anand.
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