Although there are 12 check posts in the district, the police department chose to install cameras in these five check posts keeping in mind their need in post-election days as well, Mr. Goyal said. Each check post has been equipped with four cameras which have a recording capacity that can last a whole month.
Effective policing is being carried out at check posts all over the district and an amount of Rs. 21 lakh in five different cases, suspected to be used for election campaigning, has been recovered, the SP said.
A total of 933 polling stations in four Assembly constituencies come under the jurisdiction of the DK police (the other constituencies come under Mangalore Commissionerate). GPS inputs have been gathered for all these polling stations and the same have been uploaded to Google maps for effective monitoring of situation in each of the polling stations, Mr. Goyal said.
District police have been given enough Central Para Military Forces (CPMF) along with excise squad, coastal security forces and forest guards. CPMF personnel from non-Karnataka regions are being trained in Kannada so that they can effectively communicate with the people, Mr. Goyal added.
The SP said that there are 700-800 police personnel in the district who are eligible to cast their vote in the state Assembly elections and arrangements for postal ballots for them are being made. The department has already received 550 postal ballots, Mr. Goyal said.
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