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Guys Check this out...!!! Our Police men are so lucky to have a ATV... Now they are using it in Besant nagar beach for supervising...
CHENNAI: The police plan to commission about 10 All-Terrain Vehicles (ATVs) on the city's beaches before Kaanum Pongal'.
"We have ordered 10 ATVs and Elliots Beach will get another ATV. We plan to sanction an ATV for Neelankarai beach. The rest will be allotted to the Anna Square, Marina and Foreshore Estate police stations according to the crowds," police commissioner T Rajendran said.
The initiative follows a series of drowning mishaps. In the past one week, nearly five persons drowned in the sea off the Marina.
Each ATV, with a 250cc engine, can travel at 80 kmph and will be fitted with a siren and other additional features of a beat patrol motorcycle. The vehicles after commissioning will be handed over to the deputy commissioners of police concerned.
Each Taiwan-made ATV, which can even negotiate an incline of 50-60 degrees, costs Rs 3 lakh and gives 10 km per litre of petrol. Ten personnel of the Sastri Nagar police station have been trained to handle the vehicle. The vehicle.
"We have a police outpost at Elliots Beach and the ATVs will be kept at the Sastri Nagar police station. In 2010, there were 11 drowning cases reported off Elliots Beach. After the inauguration of ATV there, no casualties were reported," Adyar deputy commissioner of police MC Sarangan told TOI.
"Recently, five college students struggling in the sea raised an alarm. The police in the ATV noticed them and alerted the lifeguards who rescued them. There is no problem in people frolicking in ankle deep water. People should not venture too deep into the sea at dangerous spots," south Chennai joint commissioner of police P Shakthivelu said.
Source: 10 all-terrain vehicles on city beaches before Kaanum Pongal - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/c...#ixzz1BAu4rUSd
If i get a chance, i will ask them for a round!!!!
CHENNAI: The police plan to commission about 10 All-Terrain Vehicles (ATVs) on the city's beaches before Kaanum Pongal'.
"We have ordered 10 ATVs and Elliots Beach will get another ATV. We plan to sanction an ATV for Neelankarai beach. The rest will be allotted to the Anna Square, Marina and Foreshore Estate police stations according to the crowds," police commissioner T Rajendran said.
The initiative follows a series of drowning mishaps. In the past one week, nearly five persons drowned in the sea off the Marina.
Each ATV, with a 250cc engine, can travel at 80 kmph and will be fitted with a siren and other additional features of a beat patrol motorcycle. The vehicles after commissioning will be handed over to the deputy commissioners of police concerned.
Each Taiwan-made ATV, which can even negotiate an incline of 50-60 degrees, costs Rs 3 lakh and gives 10 km per litre of petrol. Ten personnel of the Sastri Nagar police station have been trained to handle the vehicle. The vehicle.
"We have a police outpost at Elliots Beach and the ATVs will be kept at the Sastri Nagar police station. In 2010, there were 11 drowning cases reported off Elliots Beach. After the inauguration of ATV there, no casualties were reported," Adyar deputy commissioner of police MC Sarangan told TOI.
"Recently, five college students struggling in the sea raised an alarm. The police in the ATV noticed them and alerted the lifeguards who rescued them. There is no problem in people frolicking in ankle deep water. People should not venture too deep into the sea at dangerous spots," south Chennai joint commissioner of police P Shakthivelu said.
Source: 10 all-terrain vehicles on city beaches before Kaanum Pongal - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/c...#ixzz1BAu4rUSd
If i get a chance, i will ask them for a round!!!!
^^^ is no reason to buy an ATV; how will an ATV help from rescuing or preventing people from getting drowned?
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