Amid expected presence of thousands of enthusiastic hockey lovers,VVIPs and VIPs during coming up World Hockey league (WHl), which the State is hosting for first time, Chhattisgarh will be deploy roughly 2,000 police personnel to ensure incident-free and smooth execution of the mega event starting from November 27 to December 8.
“Around 2,000 police personnel will be pressed into the duty of ensuring peacefully organising of the mega hockey event. Adequate number of police personnel will be deployed in and around the International Hockey Stadium in Raipur and in security of players. Besides, special arrangements will be planned to make sure vehicular movement smooth in areas close to the stadium and during the movement of players in the city,” said Raipur Range IG G P Singh.
According to police, as a pre-emptive measure, checking points will be installed at entry and exits points of the city to carry out intense checking of vehicles. Besides, Door Framed Metal Detector (DFMD) and Hand Held Metal Detector (HHMD) will also be used to carry out thorough frisking at the match venue. To keep close watch on movement of people and vehicles, sufficient number of surveillance cameras will also be installed in and around the stadium.
Special arrangements will be made for security of players and prevent nuisance at hotels, where players are likely to stay, pointed police sources, adding that police personnel in civil dress will be put in at the stadium during their practice session for security of players.
For convenience of hockey lovers, parking lots in broad area will be developed to accommodate almost all vehicles in proper manner.
With the objective to keep records of vehicles entering in parking place, cameras would be installed in parking lots. To handle mismanaged parking of vehicles, cranes would be pressed into service to toe away vehicles parked in the restricted areas.