Chennai now has daily terror drill

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Chennai: Move over Operation Hamla. The city police have now started doing anti-terror drill on a daily basis. “The idea is to sensitise people on the street, mall-owners and managers of lodges about the possibility of terror strike than doing it once in six mo­n­t­­hs,” a senior po­li­­­c­­e official no­ted.
 
Senior police officials’ tea­m have cha­rted out a daily anti-terror action plan for all the 12 police districts in the city. Every deputy commissioner in the city has formed an 8 to 10-member team headed by an inspector to conduct routine drills. “It will be a foreign consu­la­­te in some area on a particular day, while in the neighbouring police district it will be temples or mosques or churches. 
 
The routi­n­­­e anti-sa­b­o­t­age ch­e­c­k is conducted with the help of the local police station,” the official added. Senior officials in the city are of the opinion that instead of giving a knee-jerk reaction to a terror atta­ck or terror al­e­rt­, ­the police in Ch­en­n­­ai should be doi­ng the check on a daily basis.
 
It will h­el­p the police team ga­t­her information and build contacts. The officials shou­ld not depend on int­el­lig­ence inputs to prep­are themselves on possible attacks.