Srinagar, June 24: Deputy inspector General South Kashmir range Anantnag Javaid Iqbal Matoo-IPS on Tuesday called for an effective mechanism and planning for smooth and peaceful conduct of Shri Amarnath Ji Yatra. He emphasised upon officers for special focus on sensitive locations and base camps while putting in place the security arrangements.
DIG chaired a meeting of senior officers from Police, Army & CAPFs to review the security arrangements and deployment of personnel for the yatra at Qazigund, Kulgam.
The meeting deliberated on different issues of security of camps, communication network, regulation of traffic management on national highway and other roads, parking of vehicles and deployment of forces.
It was decided that sufficient manpower will be deployed in advance so that the camps and routes of yatra are secured and checked at the earliest. It was decided that rescue teams will be deployed by the Police forces at various places to provide necessary help to the yatris.
The DIG stressed upon the officers present in the meeting to maintain close coordination with their ranks and other security agencies to achieve better results and called for an effective mechanism and planning for smooth and peaceful conduct of the yatra. He emphasised upon officers for special focus on sensitive locations and base camps while putting in place the security arrangements.
He said that the coordination mechanisms and communication systems must be established among the counterparts of all the stakeholders of army, CAPFs, Police and Civil administration. He said that adequate and effective deployments should be made on ground to address any vulnerability and to gaps if any. He directed the officers to revisit security plans and fine tune these at sectoral level to augment an adequate response to any exigency.
He emphasized for focus on ROPs, lateral deployment, law & order deployment to neutralize threats and meet the challenges. He said that adequate manpower will be available to the jurisdictional officers
