Elaborate deployment of police personnel and video recording through CCTV cameras, body-worn and drone cameras are part of the heightened security measures that will be in place for the ten-day Dasara festival, which will kick off on September 26 with the inauguration by President Droupadi Murmu.
Briefing reporters in Mysuru on Saturday, City Police Commissioner Chandragupta said 24-hour video recording will be available for the authorities from not only the 59 CCTV cameras permanently installed at traffic junctions in the city and the 110 installed along the route of procession from Mysuru Palace to the Torch Light Parade Grounds in Bannimantap, but also the 13,140 CCTV cameras installed by the general public under the Karnataka Public Safety (Measures) Enforcement Act 2017.