Overview
- Bengaluru will field close to 20,000 personnel citywide, including roughly 14,000 for law and order and about 2,500 traffic police, backed by KSRP and reserve units.
- Monitoring will use facial recognition, AI-enabled cameras, drone feeds and a new heat map system to track crowd density in real time.
- MG Road Metro station will shut for entry and exit from 10 pm on December 31, with vehicle movement barred on key stretches from 8 pm to 2 am and dispersal buses positioned after midnight.
- Women’s safety measures include 164 help desks, more women officers on patrol and immediate-response teams for harassment complaints.
- Police report no specific threat, but anti-terror units are on standby and pre-event drives have booked 2,854 drunken driving cases.