RAWALPINDI: To ensure the safety of the Pakistan Super League (PSL), which will begin in the garrison city on March 2 with two matches at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium and conclude on March 10, the Rawalpindi administration has sent out more than 5,500 police officers, including the special unit.
The Shamsabad metro station will be closed throughout the matches, while the bus stations in Faizabad and Rehmanabad will be blocked for security reasons during the movement of cricket teams. Despite this, the bus service will be available all day. Similar to this, because of the PSL matches, the food street next to the stadium has been closed indefinitely.
A security strategy has been developed to ensure the teams of cricket players are secure. Signs will be up at various locations, and police officers will randomly inspect cars. When cricket teams arrive and depart from the airport on the outskirts of Islamabad, 750 police officers will be on duty.
The Rawalpindi district police would be in charge of ensuring the security of the airport’s funnel area, which is located inside the district borders of Rawalpindi, while the Attock police will be stationed in the 40% of the Islamabad airport that is within their jurisdiction.
Closed is Food Street near the stadium; a traffic strategy is drawn out.
The police officers stationed along the airport route will be armed with metal detectors, walk-through gates, umbrellas, torches, megaphones, obstacles, and barbed wire. Snipers will be stationed on the rooftops of buildings along the route.
Every SHO in question has been instructed to go to the rooftops of the buildings surrounding the cricket stadium and remove any objects that might be utilized to cause disturbances to the quiet. They will be in charge of shutting off their respective sections as well. The tear gas shells will be supplied by the tear gas storage in-charges, and the extra supply will be delivered by armored personnel trucks parked outside the cricket ground.
