Chennai: Marking the culmination of four day Pongal festivities, more than 10,000 police personnel would be deployed on security duty in the megapolis ahead of "Kaanum Pongal" on January 17.
As per the instructions of Chennai City Police Commissioner A K Viswanathan, apart from physical deployment of police personnel in uniform and in plain clothes, various other measures were put in place to ensure that tight vigil was maintained at all places, including in the famous Marina beach, where hundreds and thousands of people from various parts of the State, were expected to congregate.
Police personnel would be manning the entire stretch of Kamarajar Salai on the Marina beach where a large number of people were expected to visit the MGR, Jayalalithaa, Anna and Karunanidhi memorials.
The memorials of Jayalalithaa and Karunanidi had been visited by hundreds of people on a daily basis and the crowd on Kaanum
Pongal day was expected to be even higher.
Police sources said all terrain vehicles would be deployed at Marina and at Besant Nagar Elliots Beach to patrol the beach front.