Tight security arrangements for Independence day

Bengaluru: The police in Bengaluru have made elaborate security arrangements for the 68th Independence Day celebrations at the Field Marshall Manekshaw Parade Grounds. Nine DCPs, 16 ACPs, 48 police inspectors, 101 sub inspectors, 15 women sub-inspectors, 77 assistant sub-inspectors, 182 head constables, 459 police constables, 94 women constables and 184 other officers in civil clothes, totaling up to 1,183 police personnel, are being deputed for the security work.

Additional forces of six contingents of Karnataka State Reserve Police (KSRP) and two squads of Rapid Action Force (RAF) have also been deployed.
Forty CCTV cameras have been installed around the grounds and 56 constables will record the proceedings with their cameras.

The spectators have been advised to cooperate with the police at the security checkpoints. The police have banned cigarettes, matchboxes, lighters, liquor, liquor bottles, sharp instruments like knives, black clothes, pamphlets, coloured chemicals and liquids, eatables, video and still cameras, water bottles and cans, flags, weapons of any kind and firecrackers and explosives of any kind.

Twenty-two ambulances, 30 doctors and three fire tenders will be present at the grounds. Fifteen hospitals in the city have been told to keep 100 beds and around 250 medical staff ready as a precaution.

The police have checked all the hotels, lodges, restrooms and other places in the city over the last 15 days as an intelligence initiative. A large number of policemen will also keep a watch in other parts of the city, the police said.