Police impose restrictions to ensure peaceful tourist-friendly Christmas, New Year celebrations in Kanniyakumari district

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The Kanniyakumari territory constabulary person heightened vigil and imposed restrictions for ensuring tourists-friendly and peaceful Christmas and New Year celebrations crossed the district, particularly successful the planetary tourer destination of Kanniyakumari.

Speaking to reporters present connected Tuesday, Superintendent of Police R. Stalin said disposable policing would beryllium ensured astatine each places of worship wherever peculiar prayers would beryllium conducted arsenic portion of Christmas and New Year celebrations. Over 1,500 constabulary unit would beryllium deployed crossed the territory connected December 24 and 25 (Christmas) and connected December 31 and January 1 to guarantee instrumentality and order. As portion of this information measure, 78 impermanent check-posts crossed the territory had been erected successful summation to the existing check-posts.

A full of 30 mobile patrols, 27 motorcycle patrols, 5 exigency effect teams, 5 speedy effect teams, 5 road patrol vehicles, and 2 tourer patrol vehicles had been deployed with breathalysers to debar crimes, accidents and drunken driving. Moreover, the policemen manning the imperishable and impermanent check-posts besides transportation the breathalysers to randomly cheque the motorists for manoeuvring of vehicles nether the power of alcohol.

“Rash driving, motorcycle stunts and drunken driving volition beryllium earnestly dealt with and nary mercy volition beryllium shown to these violators. Besides cancelling their driving license, cases volition beryllium registered nether punitive sections of law. Parents allowing their insignificant children to thrust bikes oregon thrust cars volition beryllium booked. We’ve registered 108 specified cases this twelvemonth since January last, which volition fetch them up to 3 years imprisonment. Hence, the parents should beryllium behave responsibly considering their children’s future,” Dr. Stalin warned.

The euphony concerts successful nationalist places and the hotels should beryllium organised arsenic portion of the celebrations lone aft getting owed support from the police.

Since the nationalist would throng the shops up of festivals, the policemen would beryllium regulating parking of vehicles on the roadworthy and the owners of vehicles parked successful ‘No Parking Zones’ and placed successful haphazard mode to impact creaseless travel of vehicular postulation would beryllium booked.

The SP urged the nationalist who question to different places during this vacation to pass the adjacent constabulary presumption truthful that the law-enforcers would support an oculus connected their houses.

Published - December 23, 2025 06:10 p.m. IST

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