One or two police officers are being placed in each prison, while the rest are being sent to the field.
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The Nepal Army is set to be deployed to provide temporary security to prisons across the country for a month. The Nepal Police and Armed Police Force (APF) are set to be deployed for election security, and the Nepal Army is set to be deployed to provide temporary security to prisons across the country.
One or two policemen are being placed in each prison and the rest are being sent to the field. Out of the approximately 80,000 police personnel, 71,000 and approximately 37,000 armed forces personnel are being mobilized for the February 21 election.
The police and armed forces are being deployed in the inner and subsequent security perimeter of the election. For this, the minimum number of personnel is being deployed in offices, barracks and administrative work and the remaining police and armed forces are being focused on election security.
Under this, the responsibility of prison security given by the police and armed forces is being given to the army until the voting is over and the army returns. According to Nepali Army Spokesperson Assistant Lieutenant Colonel Rajaram Basnet, the army is being deployed in prisons across the country and the police and armed forces are working together for this. There are 75 prisons across the country, including large, medium and small ones, and the army is being deployed in all of them.
Director of the Prison Management Department, Chomeendra Neupane, said that other security agencies are gradually getting the go-ahead to deploy the army for election security.
80,000 of the army's approximately 100,000 personnel are being deployed for election security from Wednesday. In addition to external security management, the army is being mobilized for roles such as air patrols, joint patrols, transportation of ballot boxes, and transportation of election materials.
According to the integrated election security action plan, the army is being mobilized individually and jointly with other security agencies. The army is going to go out to the field for the election from Wednesday. President Ram Chandra Poudel, on the recommendation of the Council of Ministers, has approved the mobilization of the army for the election on 11 Mangsir.
