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LOKSABHA
GENERAL ELECTIONS - 2014
A P ORBANDAR P OLICE I NITIATIVE
BACKGROUND
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Assembly Constituencies
Police Stations
Total Area
Total Population
Total Voters
Total PSL
Total PS
Critical PSL
Critical PS
Vulnerable pockets
Booths of 3 districts of
11-Porbandar PC
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2316 sq km
5.86 lakhs
4.03 lakhs
262
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Rajkot, Junagadh,
Amreli
CHEQUERED HISTORY – CHALLENGES
 History of criminal gangs
 Involvement in smuggling and gun running
 Illegal mining mafias operating in the area
 Vast coastline – 1993 Bombay blast cases & 2008
Mumbai shootings
 History of gang leaders contesting elections as
representative of recognised parties.
 One sided voting patterns indicating intimidation –
1990 elections to the LA had an independent candidate
securing 86% of the polled votes.
CHALLENGES
 To conduct free, fair, peaceful and transparent elections
 Maintenance of Law & Order
 Building confidence among the voters
 Strict observance of MCC
 Expenditure monitoring
 Coordination among various agencies
 Quick response: true and real time
feedback
 Ensuring franchise of all police officers
 Training and sensitization of officers
CHALLENGES
(Contd)
 Both the candidates of the recognised parties having
recent criminal history
 One of the candidates being a gang leader having 18
serious criminal cases against him
 Predominance of one community in rural areas and
one of the candidates belonging to the same
community
 Mining mafias and criminal
gangs as sources of money
and muscle power for
elections
INITIATIVES
Use of Technology in Security Management
 AVLS Mounted PCR vans linked to incident management
system at the control room
 Use of Smartphone Apps for information exchange and
complaint redressal mechanism
 IP based CCTV cameras to cover all entry/exit points and
24*7 manned CCTV control room
 Use of technical surveillance techniques in maintaining
watch on trouble makers
1. Village Visitations
• The exercise was divided into 3 phases
• From mid February till 3rd week of April
• Phase 1 – before declaration of elections
• Phase 2 - after declaration of candidates
• Phase 3 – during the campaigning period
• SHOs and supervisory officers visited all
155 villages in phases
Village Visitations
• Village as a unit of attention & action
• Updating of Village Crime Note Book I/IV
with emphasis on the election scenario.
• Details of the PSL/ PS in each of the villages
• Details of the election related offences in
the village
• Understanding the intra village conflicts
• Identifying the trouble mongers/ intimidators
to be bound down
(Contd)
2. District Police Telephone Registry
• Data bank of numbers & posting of all police personnel
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along with their place of postings were made
The details of the same shared with corresponding
villages and also the polling personnel as well as CPMF
units
Five telephone numbers of independent reputed people
from each of the 155 villages/ PSLs were taken - 2 landline
and 3 mobile numbers
Kept in the police control room as a measure of cross
verification of complaints
Control room incharge and telephone operators trained
on the incident management system.
3. Training of Personnel
• Training of master trainers at the state
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All officers of the district trained by me
All CPMF coy commanders trained by me
Constabulary and CPMF jawans trained by
DySPs
The entire personnel including SRP/HG/GRD/SRD trained
by DySPs
Entire training programme of police
personnel webcast
Training of Personnel
• Training content
• MCC and its implementation
• Election laws and related offences
• Role of police in expenditure monitoring
• Pre-poll and poll day duties
• Security of un-polled and polled EVMs
• Role of sector mobiles
• Role of CPMFs
• Trained manpower figures
• Officers trained – 29
• Other ranks trained – 665
• CPMF companies trained – 02
• HG/GRD/SRD trained – 667
(Contd)
4. Postal Ballots for Personnel on Duty
• All personnel on duty were given postal ballots
• Personnel including drivers of ST buses given postal ballots.
• Postal ballot figures
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Total Strength – 714
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New Registration – 10
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Form no. 12 issued – 701
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Postal Ballots cast – 701/ 714 (98%)
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Gram Rakshak Dal votes cast – 451/ 467 (97%)
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Home Guard votes cast – 251/277 (91%)
5. Posting of Police Personnel
• District cadre among police personnel
• All personnel who completed 3 years in a police station
transferred in the month of March 2014
• Policemen posted in stations outside their home villages
• Randomization of local police staff before deployment on
the election duty
• No person of a police station was deployed on booths in
the same police station limits
6. Modification of Existing Police Routines
• City police stations to have at least a PSI rank officer as the
Police Station Officer from 1600 to 2400 hrs
• Night round system modified for the campaign period so
that at least one PI/ Subdivision and one PSI in between
two police stations
• Police Mobiles to have PCR incharges of PSI rank in city
and ASI in rural areas in evening time.
Modification of Existing Police Routines (Contd)
• Separate Police Control Room mobiles started for the
period utilising reserve vehicles from HQ
• All patrolling vehicles to daily cover the vulnerable
hamlets and trouble spots daily
• Special units like Special Operation Group and Local
Crime Branch divided into smaller sub units to
increase reach and reduce response time
7. Intelligence Reports and Forecasting
• System of forecasting regarding the campaigning activities
for the next 24/48 hours prepared daily based on inputs
from local intelligence branch
• This ensured proper police bandobust and also copy given
to the VST so as to cover the functions
• Proactive bandobust ensured free and fair campaigning
• System of daily intel reports
from the field LIB operatives
analysed and brewing troubles
addressed at early stage
8. Expenditure Monitoring
• Use of Flying Squads (FS) and Static Surveillance Teams
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(SST)
7 Check Points identified and teams rotated among the
check points
To maintain element of surprise the locations of teams
decided only on the concerned day
To ensure free and fair functioning of these teams, the
members of the teams rotated on a regular basis and proper
videography of the work done
Frequent checking of the teams by DySP/ SDM based on
their location charts available with them
IP based Cameras used to monitor on real time
9. Technical Surveillance
• The main criminal elements and trouble makers identified well
in advance
• Their movements and activities kept in watch and field LIB
reports analysed to identify the main intimidators
• Telephone numbers of active intimidators and henchmen put
under technical surveillance to ensure that their efforts don’t
succeed
• Fine balance between the active political functionaries and real
intimidators/ criminals
CONFIDENCE
BUILDING
MEASURES
• Continued interaction of police officers with the people.
CONFIDENCE BUILDING MEASURES
• Use of CPMF for confidence building
 Flag marches by CPMF on pre-defined sector routes
 CPMFs given information of the routes and villages in advance
 All 155 villages covered by flag march
CONFIDENCE BUILDING MEASURES
 Coy. Commanders encouraged to talk to the common men.
CONFIDENCE BUILDING MEASURES
 Patrol Vehicles displayed appeal to vote
 Control room/ Local PS contact details displayed on patrol
vehicles for election related complainants
CONFIDENCE BUILDING MEASURES
 Area familiarization by the CPMF with special emphasis on
vulnerable areas and critical polling booths
CONFIDENCE BUILDING MEASURES
Vunerable Area Management
 Pre Poll announcement
 Sensitivity/vulnerability analysis in advance
 Identification of vulnerable areas/people
 07 areas identified
 Identification of potential trouble makers, 28 persons identified
 Criteria:
 Past history of election violence.
 Caste Conflicts
 Prevailing political situation.
 Crimes against weaker sections.
 Intimidation of a certain section.
CONFIDENCE BUILDING MEASURES
Vunerable Area Management
 After Poll announcement
 Visits of vulnerable hamlets by DySP/CPI/SHO
 Joint meetings of all villagers :vulnerable and non-vulnerable
population
 Preventive actions against potential trouble makers and frequent
checking even after P.A.
 Flag marches in these areas
CONFIDENCE BUILDING MEASURES
• Poll Day
 Special attention from the evening of 29-04-14 till the end of polls
 Sector Magistrates and SPMs asked to patrol and halt in these areas for
maximum time
 CPMF Coy Commanders asked to patrol these areas
COMPLAINTS REDRASSAL SYSTEM
Schematic diagram complaints redressal system
COMPLAINTS REDRASSAL SYSTEM
 Pre-poll:
13 complaints received, all disposed off on top priority
 Poll day:
 Sector mobiles were backbone of the system
 Complaints directly dispatched to SPMs for quickest response, in
addition to DYSP/SHO
 ATR received from SPMs and corroborated from DYSP/SHO.
 37 complaints received
 All complaints found frivolous
SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS
 Pre-poll:
 Force on stand to from 1200 Hrs
 SPMs/SHO started patrolling from 1200 hrs to prevent any
kind of intimidation and inducement of voters
 SST/FSTs also deployed and supplemented by PS teams
 Combing operations to check political workers not voters
of the area. All hotels/ guesthouse etc. checked
SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS
 CPMFs deployed at polling stations by 12 o’clock
 SPMs took a round of all PS/PSL of routes checked
CPMFs, went back to dispatch centers and joined sector
magistrates
 Started with polling parties towards PSL
 SRP sent with polling parties to augment security
 SPMs and all police mobiles on patrolling till late night
SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS
1.Static bandobust at PS/PSL
Police/SRP/CPMF/HG
2.Mobile bandobust
Sector mobiles on 27 routes
SHOs with 09 QRT/police station
Supervisory officer with striking
force/AC
3.District striking force
Stationed at district Control room to
meet any eventuality and respond in
case of any law and order problem
Apart from the 27 SPMs, 8 more group mobile made from existing reserves
and sub teams of specialised units like Local Crime Branch and Special
Operations Group
SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS
 Poll Day:
 By 7 a.m. “Kheriyat” report from all SPMs regarding
deployment at PS/PSL.
 “Kheriyat” report every hour after that.
 Halt at vulnerable/critical/crowded polling stations for
maximum time.
 At the end of poll SPMs halted at the last PS of route and
traveled with the party.
 SPMs resumed patrolling after polled EVMs reached receiving
centers.
 Polled EVMs transported to counting center under escort of 2
PSIs and 1 Section CPMF.
SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS
 Counting Day:
 The entire counting centre cordoned by 3 tier security
 Vehicle Checking and frisking at district borders
 Route Mobiles to cover the routes used by counting agents
 Multi camera CCTV Surveillance Van at the counting centre
 Barricading of entire centre to prevent crowd formation
 Local police from other district to identify counting agents
from neighbouring districts
WELFARE
 Best accommodation provided to CPMFs
 Hygiene and sanitation : 12 toilet blocks constructed
 Fogging and insecticide treatment periodically
 Doctor on call facility
 All police personnel asked to keep their medical history and
emergency medicines on polling day
 Appreciation letters for their hard work
 Daily allowance / Food allowances given in advance
 Food packets to all personnel on duty on both days
ACHIEVEMENTS
Sl No
Action Taken
Numbers
1.
Preventive actions
PASA
Externments
2548
46
10
2.
Licensed arms deposited
743 (100%)
3.
Prohibition cases
No of cases
:293
Persons arrested :378
Total seizures worth 23 Lakhs
4.
Cash interception
5 Lakhs
ACHIEVEMENTS
SR N0
1
Parameters
Total voter turnout
2009
2014
Raise
42.53
52.32
+10.20
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Voting in vulnerable
areas
32.42
51.34
+18.92
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Voting in lowest 80
booths
26.68
37.52
+10.84
4.
Body offences in last 3
months
26
23
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5.
MCC violation cases
1
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OUTCOME
 No law and order
problems during election
period.
 No election related
offences on poll day.
 No single poll related
offence even after the
counting and results