Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Lahore Additional IG Fayyaz Ahmad Dev has said that Lahore Police is all set for the security of Pak Australia International Cricket Series as it has always played pivotal role to promote sports and cultural activities in the provincial metropolis by providing foolproof security to these events.
“We are ready to provide complete protection to the visiting national and international players as well as spectators of the Pak-Australia cricket series with even more elaborate and improved security plan than the previous ones,” he added. Lahore Police has chalked out comprehensive security plan for all the matches of Pak-Australia cricket series including one test mach, three One-Day and one T-20 International Cricket mactch to be played in Lahore at Qaddafi Stadium from March 21 till April 05 .
According to the Security Plan, more than 08 thousands police officers and officials of different units of Lahore Police including SsP, SDPOs, SHOs, Dolphin Squad, Police Response Unit and Elite Force would perform security, patrolling and traffic management duties during the matches to ensure foolproof security of the event along with smooth flow of traffic.
According to the security plan as many as 10 SsP, 31DSsP, 77 SHOs, 332 Uper Subordinates, more than 06 thousands FCs including lady constables, 204 teams of Dolphin Squad,107 teams of Police Response Unit(PRU) would be deputed on security and patrolling duties during the matches.
Australian players and officials have been given the status of state guests according to the Government directions. CCTV cameras around Gaddafi Stadium and parking areas have been fully operational during the International Cricket Series as security plan and traffic advisory would be strictly enforced in letter and spirit.
The CCPO Lahore further said that maximum efforts would be made to least disturb the routine activities of the citizens, traders and businessman during the matches as zero route would be provided to the teams to ensure their security by containing traffic only during the movements of teams from their residential places to the stadium and vice versa.
Four layers security would be provided to the citizens who will only be allowed to enter the stadium after complete checking process and following the Corona SOPs. CCPO Lahore said that Lahore Police has earlier provided foolproof security to all the national and international sports and cultural events being held in the provincial metropolis and would also ensure complete implementation on SOPs adopted earlier regarding security plan to conduct the matches in safe and peaceful atmosphere.
