ISLAMABAD: The government has deployed over ten thousand police and paramilitary personnel with assistance from the military for the security of about nine hundreds delegates who are arriving in Islamabad for the 23rd SCO summit scheduled on Oct 15 and 16 in the capital city.
The federal government has already announced three-day holidays when Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will be in meeting here.
Police and paramilitary personnel will provide safety of delegations, routes, and venues during the high-profile summit hosted by Pakistan at the Jinnah Convention Centre, according to a report published in the daily ‘Dawn’.
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The delegates will be accommodated at different locations inside the ‘Red Zone’ and fourteen locations in the capital have been arranged for such facilities.
Citing Police sources the report added that at least 6,643 officials of the capital police, 1,000 Frontier Constabulary (FC) personnel, 2,000 personnel of the Punjab Constabulary, and 888 Rangers personnel will perform security duties from October 13 to 17 in three tiers assisted by the military.
Moreover, over six hundered personnel will look after motorcades: more than two thousand will be deployed on routes, over two thousand will protect accommodations.
About five hundered at the conference venue, 122 at the inner and intermediate cordons, 222 officials at different points in the high-security zone, and thirty-seven officials in the parking area, and seventy-two people will perform duties in the control room.
The report added that 124 vehicles will perform duty for the motorcade with 84 accompanying the heads of states, and 40 for other delegates.
Officials said that twenty-four points on Route-I and ninteen points on Route-II had been declared sensitive from the airport to the high-security zone. Besides, there are 21 sensitive points in the funnel area, they added.
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Quoting officials, the report further said that twenty-four points of Route-II are sensitive from the airport to the high-security zone and police officials deployed for protocol duties would be armed with SMGs.
Likewise, six and four places respectively have been declared ‘safe houses’ during the movement of VVIPs on Route-I and Route-II.
Fifteen points on Route-I will be ‘plugged and blocked’ during the convoys’ movement.
Entry points, rooftops, and pickets would be highly secured with strict supervision. And armed private security guards at hotels and other visiting venues will not be allowed on the special occasion.
The security plan directs that the cavalcade in-charge will be responsible for the parking formation and check the turnout of cavalcade personnel.
The Special Branch will ensure walk-through gates at the venue and deploy officials to control access. It will also vet the staff working at the venues as well as the participants of the functions to be attended by VVIPs.
