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The Greater Chennai Police has been making elaborate information arrangements for Kaanum Pongal connected January 17, deploying astir 16,000 constabulary unit and astir 1,500 Home Guards crossed the metropolis to guarantee harmless celebrations.
Chennai Police Commissioner A. Arun said the measures absorption connected Marina Beach, Besant Nagar Elliot’s Beach and different large nationalist gathering points, wherever ample crowds are expected.
At Marina Beach, 3 impermanent mini power rooms person been acceptable up betwixt the Labour Statue and the Lighthouse, on with constabulary assistance booths astatine work roadworthy introduction points. Eight ambulances, 2 occurrence work vehicles, motorboats, and implicit 200 trained unpaid swimmers volition beryllium connected standby. Thirteen impermanent surveillance towers, CCTV cameras, mounted constabulary and All-Terrain Vehicles volition beryllium utilized for assemblage power and transgression prevention. Sea bathing has been prohibited, with barricades and an 85-member anti-drowning squad volition beryllium deployed on the shore.
At Besant Nagar Elliot’s Beach, a impermanent power room, surveillance towers, mounted patrols, ambulances, a occurrence work vehicle, swimmers, and motorboats person been arranged.
To rapidly hint missing children, constabulary volition contented wrist-ID bands carrying the child’s and parents’ details astatine assistance booths. Eight drone cameras volition supply aerial surveillance astatine Marina and Besant Nagar beaches, with information messages broadcast to the public.
Security has besides been stepped up astatine Guindy Children’s Park, Island Grounds, Semmozhi Poonga, amusement parks, malls, and multiplexes. Special conveyance cheque teams volition enactment against drunk driving and postulation violations.
The Greater Chennai Traffic Police volition deploy roadworthy information patrols and monitoring teams astatine cardinal stretches, including Guindy, Adyar, Taramani, Neelankarai, Thoraipakkam, Maduravoyal Bypass Road, and GST Road, to modulate postulation and forestall motorcycle racing during the festivities.
