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Come Deepavali, Masi Streets go crowded. Textile shops and electronics goods showrooms are thronged by not conscionable residents of Madurai, but besides from neighbouring districts similar Virudhunagar, Sivaganga and Dindigul districts.
Along with the crowd, thieves besides mingle to marque astir of the festivity temper of the people.
To support the trouble-mongers astatine bay and marque the buying a joyful experience, Madurai City Police person made elaborate information arrangements.
“With conscionable 10 days near for Deepavali festival, we expect a ample assemblage during the evenings connected each days and passim the time during the weekends. Hence, we person deployed further constabulary unit to modulate the assemblage and besides to cheque criminals,” said Commissioner of Police J. Loganathan.
The constabulary person started to erect watch-towers.
“Our precedence is Vilakkuthoon junction and 3 Masi Streets (except for North Masi Street) wherever radical travel to bargain dresses,” helium added.
The metropolis constabulary person drawn maximum spot from the 4 stations astir Meenakshi Sundareswarar temple -- similar Vilakkuthoon, South Gate, Thilagar Thidal and Thideer Nagar. Besides, further constabulary unit are besides deployed connected the arterial roads and junctions.
The metropolis constabulary person besides leveraged look designation bundle (FRS) exertion to zero successful connected known criminals who would effort to mingle successful the crowd. Over and above, immoderate 160 CCTV cameras functioned connected Masi Streets and 16 FRS cameras person been installed astatine crowded places.
“These cameras could work the faces of identified criminals and springiness alert to the police,” a constabulary serviceman said.
Besides, transgression spotters person been deployed successful civvies successful bid to forestall container lifting, cellphone thefts. Police would besides beryllium deployed successful high-rise buildings to person an aerial presumption of the crowd.
“Those policemen would pass done walkie-talkies astir the assemblage question for contiguous action,” Mr. Loganathan said.
“Normal plying of vehicles would beryllium permitted connected Masi Streets successful the coming days based connected the size of crowd. As and erstwhile the assemblage swells, each introduction of each vehicles, including two-wheelers, would beryllium banned to assistance shoppers,” the Commissioner said.
Though all-out efforts person been taken by the police, including to alert drone cameras, the Commissioner appealed to the shoppers to support a vigil connected radical astir them and to instrumentality attraction of children and their valuables.
