Security arrangements in place for Onam celebrations

Wednesday, September 07, 2011: Elaborate security arrangements are in place for Kerala Tourism’s week-long Onam celebrations that commences in 26 venues in the capital and suburbs on Wednesday.
Every nook and corner of the city where festival action takes place will be under the watchful eyes of a closely-knit mesh of surveillance cameras, the pick of the season being a network of innovative moving cameras.
 
The City Police have decided to install as many as 40 moving cameras at festival centres. They will be set up at the entrances and narrow lanes near festival centres, where there would be a heavy crowd and little police surveillance. The cameras will be controlled from the special control room that will function inside the Kanakakkunnu Palace premises.
Besides the 40 moving cameras, the City Police will install 160 security surveillance cameras, all of them controlled from the special control room, at different parts of the city.
A total of 1,300 police personnel, including 1,200 uniformed officers and 100 plainclothesmen, will be present. They will also include 135 women officers who will be deployed across the city as part of ensuring law and order. They will work round the clock under the orders of different Assistant Commissioners of Police.

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