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Core team for VIP security Law & order

Expecting high-profile leaders, police officers have been handpicked for providing security to them, reports
R. Rajaram

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Huge following: Crowd thronging an election campaign.

Alongside drafting-detailed bandobust schemes for the upcoming Parliamentary elections for its smooth conduct, law enforcing authorities have also focussed on measures to be taken to ensure adequate security for VIPs as and when they visit the Central Zone as part of the poll campaign.

With battle lines drawn and election campaigns having already been kicked off by several political parties, law enforcing machinery has begun to gear up for the proposed visits of high-profile leaders to the Central Zone, comprising Tiruchi Rural, Perambalur, Pudukottai, Karur, Ariyalur, Thanjavur, Tiruvarur and Nagapattinam districts in the coming days.

Acting on instructions from the State Police headquarters, the law enforcing authorities have formed a core team of officers at the Zonal level, who would be exclusively deployed for VVIP bandobust duty. The chosen police officers would be armed with logistics and necessary paraphernalia required for maintaining security during the visit of the VIPs. Police officers of the Zone who were best suited for providing VIP security have been handpicked to be part of the crack team to ensure fool proof security for the high-profile leaders.

Officers chosen

The officers chosen for the zonal team are in the rank from the Deputy Inspector General of Police to the Inspector of Police, say police authorities here. The core team includes few Superintendents of Police, Additional Superintendents of Police and Deputy Superintendents of Police of the Zone. The team members would be sent to the places where the VVIP visits in order to provide maximum security cover and would be supplemented by the respective local police forces. Some of the officers forming part of the zonal team had been sensitised to VIP security during a session conducted by a top ranking officer in the State Intelligence Wing in Chennai recently, said the authorities adding that nearly 50 per cent of them had attended the sensitisation class.

The dos and don’ts to be followed during the visit of a VVIP; importance of anti-sabotage checks and Advance Security Liason; sharing of intelligence; type of bandobust to be provided; utilisation of security gadgets including doorframe metal detector; and a host of other security-related aspects would be briefed to the team members. Every Sub Divisional Officer would be told as to what was expected of them during the visit of a VIP and VVIP, a senior police officer here said. The authorities said the Deputy Superintendents of Police of Technical Cell in every district falling within the Central Zone had been instructed to examine the security equipment and certify its worthiness.

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