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Police strengthen security for schools festival

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The city police have made elaborate security arrangements in and around the 16 venues of the 49th Kerala School Kalotsav and 17 high schools where the contestants will be put up.

Anti-sabotage checks will be carried out at all the venues between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. every day before the contests begin. Cameras will be installed at the venues.

In addition to the city police personnel, 350 additional police personnel, including women police constables from outside Thiruvananthapuram range, will be pressed into service.

According to City Police Commissioner Revada Azad Chandrasekhar, police pickets will be set up in front of 17 high schools in the city where the participants would be put up and in front of all the 16 venues.

The major venues such as Putharikandam Maidan, SMV Higher Secondary School and Cotton Hill Girls Higher Secondary School will be under the overall charge of a senior police officer.

Vehicles of the local police station and those of the control room will be deployed for patrolling. Parking arrangements will be made by the police in consultation with the organisers, he added.

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