7K cops to monitor New Year revelry in Lucknow
Check posts and barricades will be erected on roads (especially near bars, clubs and lounges), to check drunken driving, says Lucknow JCP, law and order, Naveen Arora
LUCKNOW : Nearly 7,000 police officers and personnel would be deployed to keep a vigil on the roads so that New Year (NY) eve revelry in the city did not disturb law and order, said senior police officials here on Tuesday.
Lucknow Joint Commissioner of Police (JCP), Law and Order, Naveen Arora said the major deployment from Thursday to Sunday would be aimed at curbing nuisance on the pretext of New Year revelry as well as to enforce Covid-19 restrictions.
He said check posts and barricades would be erected on roads (especially near bars, clubs and lounges), to check drunken driving.
Security at malls and other crowded places had also been tightened to avert untoward incidents, he said.
Arora said the deployment would be supervised by deputy commissioners of police (DCP) of all five zones, five additional DCPs as well as 15 assistant commissioners of police.
He said the inspectors in-charge of all 40 police stations and their team would be on road to ensure strict implementation of directives.
Besides, 69 additional inspector rank officers, including seven traffic inspectors, would be deployed at separate routes to ensure smooth traffic flow and curb reckless driving on roads, the JCP added.
He said as many as 727 subinspectors, along with 51 women S-Is, 4,602 constables and head constables, 772 women constables and seven companies of provincial armed constabulary would be deployed at different locations.
The JCP explained that the sub-inspectors’ primary duty would be to keep vigil outside malls, lounges, clubs and pubs to help avert incidents of misbehaviour with women and girls. Multiple patrolling teams would keep roaming along different routes.
He said the process of checking at malls and other crowded places by bomb disposal squads, anti-sabotage teams and dog squads had already been started from Tuesday.