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The Greater Chennai City Police person made peculiar information arrangements with the deployment of 8,000 constabulary officers and unit to alteration the nationalist to observe the Christmas festival peacefully and safely.
On Thursday (December 25, 2025), arsenic ample numbers of radical are expected to sojourn churches, elaborate information arrangements person been made to guarantee the information of women, children, and the wide public, and to forestall overcrowding. From Wednesday (December 24) nighttime till Thursday night, nether the supervision of Deputy Commissioners and led by Assistant Commissioners, a full of 8,000 constabulary officers and unit volition beryllium connected duty. In addition, Home Guards volition beryllium deployed to assistance the police.
The metropolis constabulary said arrangements person been made to show astir 350 churches successful Chennai done constabulary teams led by officers connected a rotational basis, to guarantee creaseless postulation flow, and transportation retired broad information duties. Additional instrumentality and order, transgression subdivision and postulation constabulary unit person been deployed astatine churches that pull ample crowds, including Mylapore Santhome Church, Besant Nagar Velankanni Church, Parry’s St. Antony’s Church, St. George’s (Cathedral) Church connected Anna Salai, and Chinnamalai Church successful Saidapet, to guarantee information and modulate traffic.
Near churches, wherever ample crowds are expected to gather, constabulary teams volition usage nationalist code systems to make information consciousness and contented instructions to forestall overcrowding. Patrol conveyance teams volition behaviour continuous rounds to forestall criminals from engaging successful pickpocketing, theft, and different offences by taking vantage of the crowd. Surveillance volition besides beryllium carried retired utilizing CCTV cameras and drone cameras. Crime subdivision unit and women constabulary successful plain apparel volition show delicate areas to forestall theft, acts of intersexual harassment, and different offences.
Barricades volition beryllium placed astatine important junctions and peculiar conveyance checks volition beryllium conducted utilizing flashing lights, with peculiar arrangements to forestall concatenation snatching, mobile telephone snatching, and akin crimes.
At beaches specified arsenic Marina, Santhome, Besant Nagar, and Neelankarai, peculiar arrangements person been made to forestall the nationalist from entering the sea, contented information advisories, and transportation retired monitoring and information duties utilizing All Terrain Vehicles (ATVs), said the metropolis police.
