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New Year celebrations: 500 HD cameras installed to monitor Brigade Rd

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Bengaluru: Police are putting elaborate security arrangements, including installation of over 500 HD cameras, in place in and around Mahatma Gandhi Road, Brigade Road and other areas in Bengaluru to prevent any untoward incidents during New Year celebrations.

“The feed from these CCTV cameras will be monitored by a team of policemen, who will give live feedback to their colleagues on the ground,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police (Bengaluru Central) Chandragupta.

The crowd usually gathers at the junction of Cauvery Emporium and Brigade Road on December 31 to welcome the New Year at midnight.

Police will not allow people to gather. Instead, they will be asked to move on to Brigade Road towards Rex Theatre. “As no event has been organised on Brigade Road, there is no point in a crowd gathering on that road,” said a senior police officer.

Apart from this, over 1,500 policemen with reflective jackets would be deployed along with 60 additional patrolling vehicles to monitor the crowd and take necessary action. Around 200 floodlights will be installed at sensitive areas in and around M.G. Road for better illumination, he said.

In addition, patrolling would be intensified in sensitive areas, especially in Banaswadi, Hennur, Fraser Town, Shivajinagar and Halasuru, that lead towards M.G. Road.

The jurisdictional police have been instructed to make preventive detentions ahead of the celebrations to contain mischief mongers and habitual offenders. Policemen armed with night-vision binoculars will be posted in over half-a-dozen watch towers to monitor the situation.

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