KOHAT: The district administration has installed CCTV cameras at all the 444 sensitive polling stations and made arrangements for dealing with fire incidents by keeping one emergency exit at all the polling stations.

Additional assistant commissioner (revenue) Tahir Ali in a statement said that the plan had been given a final shape to deal with any fire incident at polling stations and three fire tenders had been put on standby to deal with any untoward incident.

He visited the local election commission office and checked the bowsers and sand buckets to be sent to polling stations along with election material.

He said that the election office had been asked to keep an emergency exit route at all polling stations for the staff and voters.

A police statement issued here on Friday said that the security arrangements had been finalised for holding transparent and peaceful elections for which the officials of Pakistan Army and police and volunteers would perform duties at the polling stations on July 25.

It said that the personnel in plainclothes had already been monitoring areas in the district especially entrances of tribal areas and the city.

Meanwhile, DSP Sanobar Khan told the volunteers at a training workshop at police lines on Friday that they should search the voters waiting in queues.

He said that parking of vehicles within 100 meters radius of the polling station should not be allowed on the polling day.

Published in Dawn, July 21st, 2018