Police control room gets maximum calls on uprooted trees

The local police, armed with cutting machines and motors pumps, were involved in removing advertisement boards, large hoardings besides getting involved in rescue missions. Between 11 pm on Sunday and 2 am on Monday, there were a maximum number of calls informing of branches falling on roads, huge flex cutouts on roads damaging vehicles and of water-logged stretches, a police official said. Each police station was given a mobile unit with a commercial truck and teams of 50 police personnel fanned out attending to the calls at various places. 

“Two inspectors each were deployed at either end of subways because most of them were flooded and we did not want anybody caught inside,” said Inspector of Police Chandru. He added that the control rooms received calls of traffic signal poles and lamp posts falling on cars and autorickshaws. Traffic was reduced across the city to just five percent of the normal. 

JJ Nagar police station inspector, M Ravi said that from morning, his team had attended to nearly 20 cases, most of which were regarding water-logging and trees being uprooted or falling. By afternoon, even the police station was inundated with water.