Garhwal Range district chiefs of police have been directed to take preventive measures ahead of Assembly election 2017 in their respective districts. Intelligence personnel have been put on alert apart from which district police officers have been directed to conduct verification drives and checking drives at important places in their jurisdictional limits, said deputy inspector general, Garhwal Range, Pushpak Jyoti while addressing the media persons at his office on Wednesday.
Jyoti said that polling will be held at 4828 polling centres out of which 412 has been identified as vulnerable while 556 as critical.
In all, 123 static surveillance teams and flying squad teams have been formed to execute the model code of conduct and to maintain law and order in the constituencies concerned, he said, adding the election area has been divided into 137 zones and 786 in the range jurisdictional limit. 34 inter-state barriers and 70 inter-district barriers have been made and adequate police forces have been deputed there to conduct vehicle checking drives to check illegal supply of liquors and cashes from other states during the election time.
SSPs concerned have been directed to conduct surprise checking at inter-state or inter-district barricading.
Jyoti said that 23 persons having come out from jails on parole, police officials have been directed to keep tab on them and to send them back to jails if they are found indulging in illegal activities while following the necessary legal procedures.
Out of 29, 856 licensed guns, 21, 856 have been deposited at police stations concerned in the range area, he said, adding that 60 guns were seized from the persons found carrying them illegally in the range area. Flying squad has seized around 70 lakh unaccounted for cash during vehicle checking drives in the range. Out of 600 absconders, 440 have been arrested and steps are being taken to arrest remaining ones. Apart from deployment of around 50 companies of CAPF, over 9800 police forces will be deployed at polling stations and other place to ensure peaceful election in the range, he said.