To ensure peaceful conduct of local body polls in the district additional forces will be deployed at sensitive and ultra sensitive polling booths, said Senior Superintendent of Police Kewal Khurana on Thursday. Out of 483 polling booths, 167 booths are sensitive and 161 booths are ultra sensitive.
SSP said that all the preparations for local body polls have been completed. District has been divided into three zones and 60 sectors, which is further divided into normal, sensitive and ultra sensitive areas. Adequate police personnel will be deployed at each polling booth.The police is positive the polls will pass peacefully Police officers have been directed to coordinate themselves to ensure peaceful conduct of civic polls in the district. To avoid untoward incident, senior officials have been directed to carry out inspections of polling booths of their jurisdiction and police patrolling has also be intensified. local intelligence units (lIU) have also been put on high alert especially at sensitive and ultra sensitive booths. No one will be allowed to take law in their hands during polling, he added.Other police official said that cops are deployed depend on nature of sensitivity of polling booths.
Normally, a sub-inspector, one head constable and five constables and three or four home guards will be deployed at ultra sensitive polling booths whereas one head constable, two constables, two or three home guards at sensitive polling stations. At normal polling stations, two constables and two or three home guards will be deployed.