Public safety: Police review security measures for PTI rally

No road blocks planned, but traffic wardens called in for double shifts.


Express October 30, 2011

LAHORE:


Inspector General Javed Iqbal has directed Capital City Police Officer Ahmad Raza Tahir to replicate the security plan put in place for the Muslim League-Nawaz rally on Friday at Tehreek-i-Insaf’s rally at Minar-i-Pakistan on Sunday, The Express Tribune has learnt.


Around 1,500 policemen including 50 Elite Force personnel will be deployed at Minar-i-Pakistan during the protest. Thirty-two walkthrough gates monitored by CCTV cameras have been installed at the venue. The protest area has been divided into four zones, with a superintendent of police given charge of a zone each.

SP (Security) Jawad Qamar said that the security measures at the PTI rally would be the same as for the PML-N rally. He said that the Rangers had not been mobilised for the rally as they were not needed.

The police were supposed to present a final security plan at a meeting to review arrangements for the PTI rally on Saturday afternoon, but they failed to do so, said a source at the meeting. Senior police and Special Branch officers, representative of Inter Services Intelligence, the Intelligence Bureau and Military Intelligence participated in the meeting.

The Home Department had written to the police asking if any Punjab Rangers personnel were needed to ensure security at the rally, but there was no conclusion reached at the meeting as to what the police response would be, said the source.

In briefings at the meeting, police and Special Branch officials said that there would be three layers of security at the venue, with 400 police personnel deployed in the inner cordons. They said that police and Elite Force vans would patrol the perimeter around the venue. Two special sweeps of the venue with metal and explosives detectors and trained sniffers dogs will be conducted before the rally. The bomb disposal squad will remain at the scene till the public meeting concludes. Search lights will also be installed in and around the venue as Imran Khan’s speech is expected after sunset.

Traffic police said that they did not plan to block any roads due to the rally on Sunday, but roads around the venue would be closed if traffic got too bad.

They said that diversion plans had been devised in case of blockages. They said that around 2,200 wardens would work double shifts in the city on Sunday.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 30th, 2011. 

COMMENTS (1)

zia | 12 years ago | Reply

keep ur security, Allah is the one who secures the person till his death...IK believes in Allah!!!

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