Elaborate security arrangements have been put in place in view of Budget Session of Vidhan Sabha, scheduled to begin from Wednesday.
Dehradun SSP Dr Sadanand Date held a police briefing at police lines and gave necessary instructions to the effect. Security has been beefed up with the deployment of additional forces inside and outside the Vidhan Sabha campus. All the arrangements related to Vidhan Sabha session have been completed and the officers concerned have been directed to do their assigned duties effectively, Date informed. SP City, CO City, city magistrate and police officers and personnel from district police, PAC, IRB, fire services, bomb disposal squad, quick response team, CPU, traffic, and lIU attended the meeting.
He said that in case protest rallies are taken out they would be stopped at the barricade at Rispana Bridge. The police have installed seven barricades around Vidhan Sabha campus, he added.
In order to strengthen security, three SPs, eight deputy SPs, 24 police station in-charges and inspectors, 24 sub-inspectors, six women sub-inspectors, 40 head constables, 237 constables, 72 women constables and seven company and one and half section of PAC jawans have been deputed. Besides, one SP, one DSP, two inspectors, eight sub-inspectors, 46 constables and nine women constables have been deputed to strengthen the security inside the Vidhan Sabha campus. One SP, six DSPs, 22 inspectors and police station in-charge, 54 sub-inspectors, six women sub-inspectors, 40 head constables, 191 constables, 63 women constables and three companies of PAC will guard the Vidhan Sabha from outside. Moreover, one SP and one DSP have been deployed for maintaining law and order in case protest rallies are taken out during the session.
An instruction has been issued to the police to take action against those who take law in their own hands in the city, Date said, adding that the security is fool-proof and any policeman caught negligent of duty would be duly punished.