New Delhi: More than 60,000 security personnel, including the Home Guard and other paramilitary forces, have been deployed across the city a day before the Lok Sabha elections.
Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik informed that elaborate arrangements have been made, based on the instructions given by the Election Commission, to ensure no anti-social element causes any menace.
Security personnel has been deployed at polling booths and reserve police forces and policemen are patrolling vulnerable areas, the police said.
The Police Control Room Unit will also stay alert to calls of any complaints being made, especially related to the election process, they added.
"The model code of conduct is being strictly enforced. There is a special watch on border areas to foil any attempt to infiltrate by anti-social elements to cause disruption. There will be a strict vigil to ensure malpractices like liquor peddling and movement of anti-social elements with a purpose to influence voters do not happen," Patnaik said.
Anti-terror measures are also in place and special arrangements have been made to check sabotage of polling booths, including election rigging, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (New Delhi) and the spokesperson of the force, Madhur Verma, said.
The officer added that extra picket teams have been deployed in border areas too.
"Briefings were held with the polling staff on the dispersal of EVMs and the routes to be taken to ensure no rigging of EVMs happens on the way. Night patrolling has been intensified to check the use of muscle power and money to lure voters," Verma said.