The submit of chief safety officer for the temple — meant to be crammed by a DSP-rank police officer — has been vacant for the previous three years. Within the absence of a certified senior officer, a temple worker holding the rank of superintendent is dealing with the obligations.

The CSO place was created to coordinate the work of a number of safety groups, together with non-public safety company employees, dwelling guards, armed police and SPF constables. With out correct monitoring, these groups are functioning with out efficient supervision.

Whereas roll calls are being held for all safety personnel, they aren’t getting used to transient employees on vigilance or duty-specific tips, resulting in errors.

The temple’s safety infrastructure can be falling quick. Only some door-frame metallic detectors are in place, and a few scanners are reportedly not functioning. This makes it simpler for prohibited objects to go undetected. A complete of round 500 CCTV cameras have been put in within the Srisailam space, and a command management room has been arrange close to the chief officer’s workplace.

Nevertheless, the cameras are monitored by safety guards who additionally must handle different duties like queue line monitoring, lowering their capacity to focus solely on surveillance.

Educated dwelling guards which have expertise within the police division are principally being assigned to visitors management somewhat than core temple safety. This hole has allowed incidents like hundi thefts to go unnoticed or be detected too late, as inexperienced guards are deployed in vital areas.

Temple sources say that when the CSO submit was crammed prior to now, safety preparations had been much more environment friendly. They warn that leaving this submit vacant for such a protracted interval is resulting in avoidable dangers and will endanger each temple property and devotee security.

A senior temple official stated that the majority officers are usually not concerned about becoming a member of as CSOs, because the function requires staying within the temple city and overseeing actions. The choice has now been left to the state authorities for additional motion.