Drones, CCTVs help police to monitor crowd during yoga day, says DGP

About 3,000 CCTV cameras and drones were pressed into service to monitor the crowd during the International Yoga Day, which was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu in Visakhapatnam on June 21, said Director General of Police Harish Kumar Gupta.

Besides the 10,000 police personnel from APSP, civil and NSG forces were deployed, and the Astram App was enabled to prevent traffic congestion and to manage parking at various places, the DGP said in a release on Sunday.

With meticulous planning and by leveraging technology the Andhra Pradesh police set a record in crowd and event management, he added.

The mega yoga event was conducted incident-free owing to the micro-level planning of the police, the DGP said and praised the officers for the success of the event.