The Commissionerate Police have made elaborate security arrangements for all the 1004 polling booths, including 157 hyper sensitive and 337 sensitive ones, under six Assembly constituencies in the Bhubaneswar Urban Police District (UPD) for the second-phase polls to be held on Thursday.
In Bhubaneswar UPD, 155 locations have been identified as vulnerable.To ensure security, 40 mobile vehicles have been placed under the charge of one SI/ASI with deployment of one Havildar and four Sepoys of Odisha Armed Police Force (OAPF) while 22 sections of striking forces under all 18 police stations in the Bhubaneswar UPD are being deployed along with two platoons of police force at the Police Reserve office as standby, to meet any exigencies, said a Press release issued by the Commissionerate Police.
All the 18 police stations are also being provided with sectoral patrol units, each comprising one Inspector with one havildar and two sepoys.As a pre-poll arrangement, 15 SIs/ASIs with 90 constables have been engaged in flying squad duty.As many as 16 SIs/ASIs have been provided as PSOs to election observers.