The Election Commission of India has directed the State election officials to ensure that randomisation of police personnel, who are drafted for duties at polling stations, should be completed before their deployment to the respective polling stations.
Steps should be taken to see that police personnel drafted for duties are deployed in such a manner that the polling stations that are allocated to them fall outside the jurisdiction of the police stations where they are presently posted. The nodal officers concerned are directed to prepare list of Do’s and Don’ts for the police personnel deployed on duty at polling stations.
Special observers appointed by the ECI — Ajay Naik, Deepak Mishra and R. Balakrishna (all retired officials) — gave this directions during a special session with the nodal officers of Commercial Taxes and Excise departments on Monday. They suggested that training should be provided to all video surveillance teams on video-graphing political programmes with cameras and “clearly not with mobile phones”.
