Delhi Police on high alert after Operation Sindoor: paramilitary, local police, SWAT commandos deployed at strategic locations
Security personnel, including paramilitary and local police, along with the SWAT commandos, have been deployed at strategic locations in the New Delhi district. The local police and the paramilitary personnel have also been deployed at the CGO complex in South Delhi.
All the deputy commissioners of police have been asked to be on alert and also hold the mock drill exercise with the full cooperation of the Civil Defence, Delhi Fire Services (DFS), and other government authorities.
Officials said vigil has been increased at the borders of Delhi, and the local police have been asked to increase the patrolling.
The directions from the Delhi Police Headquarters have been issued amidst the scheduled mock drill exercises at 55 locations in all 11 districts of the Capital Wednesday at 4 pm. Officials said drills will be held across all 11 districts — five locations in each of them — covering 660 schools and 40 markets.
In the evening, the drills, 'Operation Abhyas', will be held across the country following a May 5 directive from the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) amid India-Pakistan tensions after the Pahalgam terror attack. It will simulate multiple hostile scenarios — incoming air raids with siren activation and blackout procedures, urban fire emergencies, search and rescue operations, casualty evacuation, temporary hospital setups, and evacuation of civilians to demilitarised zones or bunkers.
Operation Sindoor came two weeks after the Pahalgam terror attack, in which 26 people were killed.
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