Ranchi police will keep a close eye on lawbreakers and hooligans this Holi to keep them from ruining the festive fervour for other revellers. Along with deploying police forces across the State capital, several measures will be taken to keep the disturbing elements in check during the festival of colours.
“We have monitored the city thoroughly to identify any sensitive points from where most cases of hooliganism are reported. We will be stationing watchers at these points to look out for and stop any troublemakers,” stated Superintendent of Police (City) Kishore Kaushik.
Community partnership to ensure a peaceful and safe Holi has also been utilised by the police force. local social bodies have provided their feedbacks to Ranchi police to help them understand the area-wise scenario better.
“Meetings of local peace committees have been convened in respective police stations all around the cities. We have received information from them about individuals known to create nuisance for other and points they frequent most. We will be using this information to prevent any unpleasant incident during Holi,” said Kaushik.
Static as well as mobile forces will be given the responsibility of guarding the city during Holi. Emphasis will also be put on ensuring women security and preventing traffic rules violation.
“Eve-teasing has been a recurring problem during Holi. Female police official will be deployed across the city to apprehend eve-teasers and ensure a safe Holi for women and girls,” the City SP said.
He further added, “Traffic rules violations and drunken driving are also common during Holi. We are working in tandem with traffic police to ensure no untowardly incident on this front.”
Ranchi traffic police will be watching the streets for traffic offenders, equipped with available machinery used to apprehend. Tipplers will have a hard time getting past undetected as traffic police officials will be stationed at all strategic points in the city with breath analysers.
“Drunken drivers and rash drivers not only pose a threat to their own lives but endanger that of others too. We will be putting up barricading in a zigzag manner on major streets of the city to slow down any speeding drivers. Special checking drives have begun from Tuesday evening itself and will continue till Holi to make sure that drivers strictly adhere to traffic rules,” stated Traffic SP Manoj Ratan Chothe.
He also said, “During this drive, all four of our traffic police stations will watch over the major intersections and stretches under their jurisdiction to check any traffic rule violations. Breath analysers will be used to prevent drunken driving.”