The two-day associated coastal information exercise, ‘Sagar Kavach’, to measure the preparedness and alertness of stakeholders progressive successful coastal information commenced connected Thursday.
The exercise, which concludes connected Friday is being carried retired successful Cuddalore and Villupuram districts.
The Coast Guard, Indian Navy, territory police, Coastal Security Group of the Tamil Nadu constabulary and different stakeholders are progressive successful the associated workout that started successful the aboriginal hours.
The drill that is being carried retired successful assorted stages, includes deployment of constabulary teams to support precocious worth targets, collecting quality connected the coastline, interception of intrusions, detection of immoderate sabotage worldly and interrogation of intruders. The teams combed captious installations arsenic portion of the exercise.
The Coastal Security Group unit carried retired patrolling successful the oversea utilizing their patrol boats, checking the boats of fishermen successful the oversea and those anchored astatine the sportfishing harbours.
The coastal villages were brought nether the scope of heightened surveillance with the CSG unit looking retired for immoderate suspicious question and sensitising the fishermen. As portion of the exercise, 5 members belonging to the Red Force teams, comprising information personnel, were sent arsenic dummies successful Thazhanguda to enactment arsenic aggressor force. The Red Force teams were “secured” by the CSG personnel.
Cuddalore territory Superintendent of Police S. Jeyakumar said that the teams combed the railway station, autobus basal and different captious installations arsenic portion of the exercise. Surveillance volition beryllium continued astatine susceptible locations, entry-exit points and coastal locations until the cognition is formally called disconnected connected Friday.

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