A 1,500-strong police force to be deployed for crowd management during New Year

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Home Minister A. Namassivayam. File

Home Minister A. Namassivayam. File

A constabulary unit of an estimated 1,000 unit from instrumentality and bid and 500 unit from postulation units volition beryllium deployed for assemblage absorption during the tourer unreserved starring to the New Year celebrations connected December 31, Home Minister A. Namassivayam said connected Friday (December 26, 2025).

Addressing presspersons aft a reappraisal gathering with the constabulary apical brass including Shalini Singh, Director General of Police Ajit Kumar Singla, IG and R. Sathiyasundaram DIGP, Mr. Namassivayam said information measures were besides successful spot for the sojourn of Vice President CP Radhakrishnan connected Monday.

The Puducherry constabulary force, which has been succesfully managing mostly incident-free New Year eve celebrations, has pressed successful further resources this year, Mr. Namassivayam said. He sought the practice of inbound tourists with the measures enactment successful spot by the constabulary to woody with the unreserved starring to New Year celebrations.

One of the measures to debar congestion is to artifact inbound vehicles astatine the main introduction points to the metropolis and run 30 shuttle autobus services to transport visitors. Special parking spaces person besides been identified astatine astir 8 locations. The full White Town precincts, with aggregate avenues starring to the Promenade Beach, volition beryllium a pedestrian-only zone.

This year, support has been sought for lone a fewer amusement events for the New Year. Accordingly, information volition beryllium provided successful those areas, the Minister said.

Replying to a question, Mr. Namassivayam denied that determination was immoderate information breach during the caller sojourn of Union Minister Mansukh Mandaviya to Puducherry. The Minister had chosen to locomotion on with the people, helium said.

On the ongoing investigations into the fake cause manufacturing scam, helium said much than 16 persons had been arrested truthful acold by the CB-CID and the Special Investigation Team (SIT). Further investigations are successful progress. As the Lt Governor has recommended handing implicit the lawsuit to the CBI and NIA, the SIT was acceptable to manus implicit the enquiry study whenever sought, Mr. Namassivayam said.

Referring to the latest monthly reappraisal meeting, the Minister said the Puducherry constabulary unit had recorded the country’s highest compliance rates with the mandated timelines successful the caller transgression laws with an 82% and 89% complaint of completion of filing chargesheets for lesser and graver offences respectively.

Published - December 27, 2025 12:29 americium IST

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