R-day: 4k Cops, 10 Watch Towers To Keep Vigil On City | Kolkata News – Times of India

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KOLKATA: The city will be wrapped in a security blanket in the run-up to the Republic Day celebrations this Thursday in one of the highest deployments since Durga Puja.
This comes in the backdrop of several central agency inputs and recovery of some photographs of political leaders from a pen drive of an IS operative a few days ago.
The city police has prepared a specific security blueprint — the focus especially on Red Road where the main function will be held on Thursday morning. Ten watch towers and 10 sand bunkers have been put up while 13 QRTs and 51 PCRs will be deployed. Three QRTs will be deployed at Red Road itself. The figures are almost double compared to those during the pandemic years, said cops.
Around 1,000 personnel, 40 special teams in the form of Quick Reactions teams, HRFS, RFS and PCRs will be present on Red Road. Another 3,000 cops will patrol central Kolkata and the city’s entry/exit points.
Each guest house is being checked. The city’s heart will witness drone vigilance from January 25 itself.
CISF officials in charge of airport security and officers of Bidhannagar City Police have been moving around areas like Kaikhali, Dum Dum, Michael Nagar, Rajarhat and Narayanpur with loud hailers and multiple police vans to sensitize residents.
Security awareness pamphlets containing contact numbers of CISF control room and local police stations were also distributed among local residents. They were sensitised to remain security aware and requested to alert CISF or local police about suspicious objects lying around the airport, unattended vehicles near airport facilities, drones, movement of suspicious persons or large gathering or protest activities around the airport.
“Sniffer dogs and bomb squad personnel will be scrutinising the venue and surrounding areas. A security audit was completed at the Alipore Bodyguard lines on Tuesday,” an officer said.

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