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They will render assistance to GRP in checking baggage and patrolling platforms, says R. Rajaram Along with night patrol, crowd regulation during temple festivals and relief operations during natural calamities, the Home Guards personnel are to be entrusted with a new assignment of assisting the ‘manpower short’ Government Railway Police (GRP) in security duties in major railway stations from next month. An order from the office of the Director General of Police directing the Unit Officers of districts and Commissionerates to lend 20 per cent of their respective Home Guards strength to the GRP has paved the way for integration of Home Guards, a voluntary service organisation, into security duty. The GRP authorities have already placed the request for allotment of the personnel of the voluntary force with the Superintendents of Police and Commissioners of Police, who are the Commandants of Home Guards in their respective units. The GRP has a State-wide responsibility of preventing and detecting offences in the vast railway jurisdiction. The Home Guards will assist the GRP in checking baggage of travellers and accompany their personnel on platform beats in 16 railway stations including Villupuram, Vriddhachalam, Ariyalur, Tiruchi Junction, Dindigul, Madurai, Virudhunagar, Rameswaram, Tirunelveli, Thanjavur, Kumbakonam and Mayiladuthurai, says Superintendent of Police, GRP, Tiruchi A.T. Durai Kumar. The modalities were being worked out and the deployment would be made after a briefing on the nature of duties before mid-November, the SP said. By utilising Home Guards for routine duties, the GRP personnel could be effectively used for specific tasks. This measure would contribute to visible security in railway stations, Mr. Kumar said. The railway police had sent a proposal to State police headquarters seeking sanction for surveillance cameras in Villupuram, Tiruchi, Dindigul, Tirunelveli and Nagercoil stations besides procurement of luggage scanners and multi-zone, door frame metal detectors.
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