<p>Security agencies have made elaborate arrangements for Wednesday’s Assembly polls in the city.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Around 32,000 Delhi Policemen along with 10,000 personnel from paramilitary forces will be on vigil as votes are cast.<br /><br />“An estimated 32,800 personnel from Delhi Police, including constables, deputy commissioners of police and assistant commissioners of police, have been deputed for enhancing the security grid on polling day,” A K Shrivastava, Deputy Chief Electoral Officer, said.<br /><br />In addition, 107 companies of paramilitary forces, including personnel from the Border Security Force and Central Reserve Police Force, have been deployed for polling at the 11,763 main polling booths.<br /><br />“Most of these companies were deployed for security arrangements during the elections in Rajasthan, and are now being moved into the state,” said a senior police officer.<br /><br />Delhi has 11,992 polling booths, which include 11,763 main and 229 auxiliary booths. About 630 of these have been identified as critical and hyper critical. <br /><br />Police pickets will be erected overnight: at each one of them two police officials will be deployed.<br /><br />Delhi Police spokesperson Rajan Bhagat said the security mechanism will be in place during the night before polling.<br /><br />For a small polling station with one voting booth, a constable will be assisted by a home guard personnel. But for large polling stations with multiple booths, as many as 13 policemen, including an ACP will be deployed, the official said.<br /><br />Police will be deployed about 600 feet away from each polling booth, while paramilitary forces will be deployed in and outside these booths. <br /><br />Voters would have to pass through door-frame metal detectors put up at all polling stations.Duties of specialised units of police like the Special Cell, Economic Offences Wing, Crime branch, and Traffic Police, have already been specified.<br /><br />Mobile teams with senior police officers will patrol the city. Crime teams, bomb disposal squads, quick response teams and ambulances have been also be deployed.</p>
<p>Security agencies have made elaborate arrangements for Wednesday’s Assembly polls in the city.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Around 32,000 Delhi Policemen along with 10,000 personnel from paramilitary forces will be on vigil as votes are cast.<br /><br />“An estimated 32,800 personnel from Delhi Police, including constables, deputy commissioners of police and assistant commissioners of police, have been deputed for enhancing the security grid on polling day,” A K Shrivastava, Deputy Chief Electoral Officer, said.<br /><br />In addition, 107 companies of paramilitary forces, including personnel from the Border Security Force and Central Reserve Police Force, have been deployed for polling at the 11,763 main polling booths.<br /><br />“Most of these companies were deployed for security arrangements during the elections in Rajasthan, and are now being moved into the state,” said a senior police officer.<br /><br />Delhi has 11,992 polling booths, which include 11,763 main and 229 auxiliary booths. About 630 of these have been identified as critical and hyper critical. <br /><br />Police pickets will be erected overnight: at each one of them two police officials will be deployed.<br /><br />Delhi Police spokesperson Rajan Bhagat said the security mechanism will be in place during the night before polling.<br /><br />For a small polling station with one voting booth, a constable will be assisted by a home guard personnel. But for large polling stations with multiple booths, as many as 13 policemen, including an ACP will be deployed, the official said.<br /><br />Police will be deployed about 600 feet away from each polling booth, while paramilitary forces will be deployed in and outside these booths. <br /><br />Voters would have to pass through door-frame metal detectors put up at all polling stations.Duties of specialised units of police like the Special Cell, Economic Offences Wing, Crime branch, and Traffic Police, have already been specified.<br /><br />Mobile teams with senior police officers will patrol the city. Crime teams, bomb disposal squads, quick response teams and ambulances have been also be deployed.</p>
