It's now official. The city police will get additional forces to handle the twin-challenges being posed by the impending IPL extravaganza and the high voltage elections.
In a fresh twist to the IPL story, police has assured the Kerala Cricket Association (KCA) that additional forces would be deployed for the first-ever IPL match between Kochi Tuskers and Royal Challengers slated for April 9 at the Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium.
It is learnt KCA officials had held several rounds of discussions with Mr Jacob Punnoose, director-general of police, and city police commissioner M.R.Ajithkumar to sort out the suspense that revolved around the upcoming event.
“We met the DGP and he asked us to go ahead with the match as scheduled. He also assured us of optimum security,” KCA president T.C. Mathew told Deccan Chronicle.
Interestingly, Ajithkumar earlier had said, it wouldn't be possible to spare his men for the IPL matches due to elections and had asked KCA officials to postpone the event. “But, he said the match could be held as per schedule if DGP agreed to allot more personnel,” said Mathew.
Reacting to Mathew's claim, Ajithkumar said he'd no problem in holding the IPL event as planned if the DGP had given the green signal. “We need more men for the IPL event as our 2,500 personnel would be under tremendous pressure during elections,” Ajithkumar explained.
Now that the DGP has given the go ahead for the IPL match, it’s learnt KCA will have another round of meeting with the commissioner of police on Tuesday.
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