Elaborate security arrangements have been made in the State capital as well as across the State in view of President Pranab Mukherjee’s one-day visit to Uttarakhand on Friday. The President is coming here to attend a programme in lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie.
State ADGP (law and order) Ram Singh Meena held a meeting with senior police officers, including IG (intelligence) GN Goswami, Garhwal Range DIG Sanjay Gunjyal, Dehradun SSP Ajay Rautela, SP City Ajay Singh and others to review the arrangements.
He gave them necessary instructions to strengthen security during the President’s visit in the State, sources said. In view of the recent bomb blast in Roorkee, security has been beefed up and police officers and intelligence officers have been put on high alert.
Instruction has been issued to the police officers to deploy additional forces at sensitive and ultra-sensitive places in the city, he added. Dehradun SSP Ajay Rautela said that all necessary security arrangements have been made in view of the President’s visit.
Nine SPs and additional SPs, 11 deputy SPs, 17 inspectors and police station in-charges and 88 sub-inspectors, five women sub-inspectors, 47 head constables and 361 constables, 20 women constables, around 36 armed police forces, seven companies of the PAC and bomb disposal squad team, dog squad, four fire tenders, 24 firemen, three traffic sub-inspectors, four traffic head constables and14 traffic constables have been deputed for the security arrangements. Adequate policemen have been deputed around the venue and at strategic locations in Mussoorie and Dehradun.
Rautela further said that barricading would be done at various places while CCTVs are used to monitor the traffic movement and activities at major intersections of the city.
The vehicles entering the city are being checked. Traffic has been diverted on several roads. A mock drill will be held on Thursday to check the security preparedness in view of the President’s visit to Mussoorie on Friday, he added.