The Delhi Police on Tuesday claimed that the police control room (PCR) calls on its helpline this Holi was 19.2 per cent lesser than last year. This year, Holi and Shab-e-Barat fell on the same day. According to data shared by police, in 2022, the festival was celebrated on March 17 and 18, and a total of 11,614 PCR calls were received on two days.

“While in 2021, the holi festival was celebrated on March 28 and 29 and the total calls received on these two days were 14,371. There was a significant decline of 32.8 per cent in the number of PCR calls related to quarrels or brawls,” as per the data.

“A total of 4,928 calls were found related to quarrels this year in comparison to 7,331 calls in 2021. The percentage of calls of quarrel vis-a-vis total calls received has also shown a downtrend. In 2021, it was 51 per cent whereas in 2022, it was found to be only 42 per cent, the data

stated.

The maximum number of 1,080 PCR calls were received from Dwarka district this year, whereas the maximum 562 calls related to quarrel were from Outer North district, the data showed.

The least number of PCR as well as quarrel related calls — 143 and 38 calls — were received from New Delhi district, it stated.

Last year, the maximum number of 1,304 PCR calls were received from Dwarka while 711 calls related to quarrels were received from the South district, it said.

Similarly, the least numbers of 131 PCR calls were received from New Delhi district which also got the 42 calls related to quarrels last year, it stated.

In order to ensure that the festivals remains peaceful, the police had made elaborate security arrangements, and taken a host of measures, including maintaining optimal visibility of the force, intensive patrolling, integrated picket checking, presence of adequate number of traffic personnel to check violations/drunken driving, additional deployment of force in sensitive pockets, etc, officials added.