According to constabulary officers, much than 2,000 constabulary officers, on with 25,000 constabulary personnel, volition beryllium connected work to guarantee the information of voters, polling stations, and delicate locations crossed the city. (Express Photo by Sankhadeep Banerjee)
In bid to guarantee a creaseless polling process during Wednesday’s Assembly elections, the Mumbai constabulary announced the deployment of implicit 30,000 personnel, including riot-control teams and location guards. In the run-up to the elections, preventive enactment has been taken against 4,492 people, and astir Rs 175 crore’s worthy of ornaments, liquor, cash, and narcotics has been seized.
According to constabulary officers, much than 2,000 constabulary officers, on with 25,000 constabulary personnel, volition beryllium connected work to guarantee the information of voters, polling stations, and delicate locations crossed the city. Among the deployed forces are 5 further commissioners of police, 20 lawman commissioners of police, and 83 adjunct commissioners of police.
The constabulary volition besides deploy 3 riot-control teams and an further 144 officers from the transport department, tasked with ensuring creaseless proscription logistics and elector movement. The deployment volition besides see implicit 4,000 location guards, who volition assistance successful assorted operations during the Maharashtra Assembly elections 2024.
Additionally, 26 units of cardinal and authorities information forces person been assigned to assistance successful maintaining bid astatine captious locations and delicate areas crossed Mumbai. Special teams, including peculiar surveillance teams and flying surveillance teams, volition show cardinal areas to forestall immoderate untoward incidents.
The officers further stated that since the announcement of the exemplary codification of behaviour connected October 15, the Mumbai constabulary person conducted operations starring to the seizure of contraband and amerciable materials worthy Rs 175 crore.
“In addition, our teams identified individuals who were believed to airs a imaginable menace connected polling day, and strict preventive enactment was taken against 4,492 people,” said a constabulary officer.
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First uploaded on: 19-11-2024 astatine 14:05 IST