The police officers in Dehradun have nearly completed the allocation of election related duties to the police force. The police force will depart for their assigned polling booths from Sunday, said Dehradun SSP Ajay Rautela on Friday. Additional force will be deployed at sensitive and ultra sensitive polling booths to prevent disorder during lok Sabha elections in the district, he added.
Rautela said that the first team consisting of 56 police personnel will depart for Chakrata/Tyuni on April 4 while second team consisting of 132 personnel will leave on April 5 followed by third and fourth teams depending on location of polling booths in the district. Adequate police force will be deployed at each polling booth depending on its sensitiveness.
Nine companies of Central Armed Police Force have been allocated for Dehradun district and these will be deployed at ultra-sensitive polling booths. In addition to this, three platoons of Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) jawans, 36 inspectors and gazetted officers, 266 sub-inspectors, 128 head constables, 2008 constables, 410 Prantiya Rakshak Dal (PRD) jawans, 60 forest guards, 1800 home guards and others will be deployed at polling stations to avoid untoward incidents during election. A total of 18 quick response teams have been formed along with 28 flash points and 10 inter-state barricades in the district.
A total of 72 polling booths have been identified as ultra sensitive and 238 as sensitive. CAPF will be deployed at ultra sensitive polling booths and PAC jawans at sensitive polling booths.