The Punjab Police said it has made comprehensive security arrangements with emphasis on enhancing vigil during crucial hours before and during the polling on Wednesday by chalking out a special security plan to ensure smooth conduct of the Lok Sabha elections 2014 in the state.
Suresh Arora, Director General of Police, Punjab on Tuesday said with mobilisation of 59,591 police personnel along with 16,119 personnel (199 companies) of para-military forces, the state police is fully geared to provide foolproof security for the free, fair and smooth conduct of elections for 13 constituencies in the state.
The DGP said the state has 13,582 polling stations and 22,060 polling booths. He added 2,442 polling stations have been declared hyper-sensitive and 4,632 were sensitive. These were being covered either by PMFs/patrolling by district police or micro observers or video cameras or web-casting.
He said 150 special nakas have been set up at Punjab borders touching Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Jammu & Kashmir and Rajasthan to effectively block the entry of any unscrupulous element during polling in the state.
The DGP informed that the entire state has been divided into 1704 sectors (beats) and each sector has been put under a sector in charge deployed by the District Election Officer and was being assisted by a patrolling party comprising of 1 head constable and 3 constables. He said that a two tier communication plan has been adopted under which besides providing additional wireless sets the mobile numbers of all sector in charges have been taken to pass or receive any message without any delay. A new SMS based information system has been prepared and installed by National Informatics Centre (NIC) through which the State Command Centre and the Districts will get direct messages from these parties.
