In a bid to ensure security to the foreign tourists, State police will create awareness among them and would ask the hotels to have complete record of their tour programme.
The hotels’ managements will also ensure that foreign tourists in general and foreign female tourists in particular hire a registered guide.
Police took initiative to strengthen security of the female foreign tourists more than a week after death of a female tourist whose body has been preserved at post-mortem house here. With the help of tour operators, hotel managements, the police would propagate the message among the tourists that they should take registered guide while on tour.
The female tourists should not be over enthusiastic for tracking and never should go alone for the same. They should hire some registered guide and must inform the hotel managements about their tour plan so that they could have an idea about their movement.
Accordingly, the hotel managements should inform the local police stations about the movement of the tourists so that the police could respond quickly in case of any urgency. The tourists should be given a list of precautions with important telephone numbers so that they can seek help in case of requirement.
Inspector General of police (law and Order) Ram Singh Meena said, “On our part, efforts are on to strengthen security of foreign tourists. There will an awareness drive to propagate the safety measures foreign tourists should take. For instance, a female tourist should never go alone for tracking and should always hire a registered tourist guide.”
Moreover, the administration is awaiting response from Russian Embassy in Delhi so that the post-mortem of the preserved body could be carried out. It may be mentioned here that a female tourist, a native of Russia, died on May 7 while tracking in Chamoli district. later, her body was preserved in post-mortem house in Dehradun.
The post-mortem would be carried out in presence of the embassy official when they come here.