All-out efforts made to make Deepavali purchasing clean and joyful

Come Deepavali, Masi Streets grow to be crowded. Textile outlets and electronics items showrooms are thronged by not simply residents of Madurai, but additionally from neighbouring districts like Virudhunagar, Sivaganga and Dindigul districts.

Along with the gang, thieves additionally mingle to make many of the festivity temper of the individuals.

To maintain the trouble-mongers at bay and make the purchasing a joyful expertise, Madurai City Police have made elaborate safety preparations.

“With simply 10 days left for Deepavali pageant, we anticipate a big crowd in the course of the evenings on all days and all through the day in the course of the weekends. Hence, now we have deployed further police power to control the gang and in addition to verify criminals,” mentioned Commissioner of Police J. Loganathan.

The police have began to erect watch-towers.

“Our precedence is Vilakkuthoon junction and three Masi Streets (aside from North Masi Street) the place individuals come to purchase clothes,” he added.

The metropolis police have drawn most energy from the 4 stations round Meenakshi Sundareswarar temple — like Vilakkuthoon, South Gate, Thilagar Thidal and Thideer Nagar. Besides, further police personnel are additionally deployed on the arterial roads and junctions.

The metropolis police have additionally leveraged face recognition software program (FRS) know-how to zero in on recognized criminals who would attempt to mingle within the crowd. Over and above, some 160 CCTV cameras functioned on Masi Streets and 16 FRS cameras have been put in at crowded locations.

“These cameras might learn the faces of recognized criminals and provides alert to the police,” a police officer mentioned.

Besides, crime spotters have been deployed in civvies so as to stop bag lifting, cellphone thefts. Police would even be deployed in high-rise buildings to have an aerial view of the gang.

“Those policemen would talk by walkie-talkies concerning the crowd motion for quick motion,” Mr. Loganathan mentioned.

“Normal plying of autos can be permitted on Masi Streets within the coming days based mostly on the scale of crowd. As and when the gang swells, all entry of all autos, together with two-wheelers, can be banned to assist customers,” the Commissioner mentioned.

Though all-out efforts have been taken by the police, together with to fly drone cameras, the Commissioner appealed to the consumers to maintain a vigil on individuals round them and to handle youngsters and their valuables.