Following the drowning of a student in the swimming pool on the campus of Touchwood School at Sahastradhara Road on Thursday, Dehradun Senior Superintendent of Police Sadanand Date has directed police station officers to inspect all swimming pools being operated in their respective jurisdictional limits without delay.
The police officers have been directed to check whether the swimming pools are equipped with the necessary infrastructure and safety measures. They will also ascertain the level of training imparted to the swimming instructors employed at the swimming pools.
The 15-year old local student, Siddharth, who died, and his sister had enrolled to learn swimming in the school swimming pool where he along with his mother and sister, had gone on Thursday evening. He and his sister went to swim in the pool when he reportedly got submerged causing a bystander near the pool to cry for help when the boy did not emerge out of the water.
The boy was rescued by the pool trainer and taken to the Coronation hospital where he was declared dead by doctors. No FIR has been registered in Raipur police station so far.
The SSP further said that police station officers have been directed to conduct the checking drive to ascertain the conditions existing at such swimming pool facilities in the city. They would review arrangements being provided at the swimming pools in the interests of those enrolled. They will check such facilities from the safety angle, ascertaining safeguards and precautions observed at such facilities, apart from which they will also check whether the swimming instructors employed are qualified well enough to work effectively as required.
Acting on the instructions of the SSP, the Rajpur police station officers checked the aspects concerned at a couple of educational institutions located along Rajpur Road on Friday.