A meeting was held at director general of police office on Thursday to review preparations for local body elections. Senior officials discussed various measures required to be taken to ensure peaceful passage of the local body election. Several senior police officials from range and district attended the meeting that went on for about an hour.
Though senior officials called meeting a routine process, sources at the DGP office said that several important issues along with reviewing preparations for the polls were discussed in the meeting. Intelligence sleuths and senior police officials from the district attended the meeting. The officials gave details about different steps being taken by them for foolproof security during the polls.
Moreover, deputy inspector general of police Amit Sinha also held a meeting at his office to discuss various steps to ensure peaceful, free and fair polling for local body election. He directed the officials to carry out regular inspection of polling booths in sensitive areas and take efforts to address the local disputes in sensitive areas on time.
He asked the senior superintendent of police (SSP) to review situation on daily basis. He said that intense checking should be carried out in sensitive areas and action should be ensured against anti-social elements that may disturb the peace. He also asked the officials to identify sensitive issues and solve them on time.
DIG said that the police officials, going on poll duty, should be apprised of different rules and regulations related to polls. He asked the police officials to carry out regular inspection of the polling booths in their respective areas. He said that each circle officer must have idea about sensitive booths in his area.
It may be mentioned here 167 polling stations and 488 polling booths in the district have been marked as sensitive. Of these 58 polling booths are marked as hypersensitive. In the city 42 booths have been identified as hypersensitive followed by Rishikesh-7, Vikas Nagar-1, and Mussoorie-5. Similarly, 74 polling stations have been put in sensitive category. Of these 52 are in city followed by Rishikesh and Doiwala- each 5, Vikas Nagar and Herbertpur – each 3, Mussoorie-6.