As many as 400 police personnel especially trained in soft skills will be deployed at 21 prominent tourist hubs including airport, railway stations and ISBTs to help delegates and other visitors during next month’s G20 Summit.

These personnel, moving in multipurpose vehicles labelled ‘Tourist Police’, will be deployed at 21 locations such as monuments, popular markets, memorials, airport terminals, interstate bus terminals (ISBTs) and railway stations, the officials at the Lt Governor’s Office said.

The prominent locations where the Tourist Police units will be deployed include the Paharganj and the Ajmeri Gate sides of New Delhi railway station, Hauz Khas Village, Palika Bazar, Red Fort, Janpath and Connaught Place, Rajghat, Humayun’s Tomb, Jama Masjid, Akshardham, Lotus Temple, Qutub Minar, India Gate and Aerocity Mahipalpur, among others. Each team comprising one Indo-Tibetan Border Police commando, a gunman and a driver will be accompanied by probationer sub-inspectors as in-charges, they said. “For every member of the Tourist Police Unit, a task-oriented training program in association with Delhi Tourism and other stakeholders has been carried out. 

The Police personnel manning these Tourist Police vehicles have been trained in soft skill and effective communication including topography of Delhi and its Tourist Places, shopping malls, hotels, transport hubs, routes and venues of G-20 Summit, english speaking course, and firing practices,” they said.

According to the officials, the units have also been provided with booklets on do’s and don’ts for tourists, physical and digital maps of Delhi and NCR, the latest fare and distance charts for taxis, list of locations of important commercial and cultural places and malls, Metro route charts, directory of emergency services and drinking water and sanitizers.

In April, Lt Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena, in one of the preliminary meetings on the preparedness for the G20 Summit, directed the Delhi Police to put in place specially tasked and trained personnel for assisting visitors, tourists and delegates during the event, the officials said. A special helpline — 8750871111 — has been made functional to assist the tourists, the officials said.

In May, the Delhi Police Tuesday released a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for tourist police vans ahead of the G-20 summit in the national Capital.