The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice has giv­en the as­sur­ance that all se­cu­ri­ty mea­sures are in place at the Di­vali Na­gar site in En­deav­our, Ch­agua­nas.

The as­sur­ance was giv­en by act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Er­la Christo­pher in a me­dia re­lease is­sued by the TTPS’ cor­po­rate com­mu­ni­ca­tions unit yes­ter­day.

“All nec­es­sary mea­sures have been put in place to en­sure the safe­ty and se­cu­ri­ty of vis­i­tors to the Di­vali Na­gar site, lo­cat­ed at Narsa­loo Ra­maya Road, En­deav­our, Ch­agua­nas,” Christo­pher said.

“The high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed event is ex­pect­ed to at­tract thou­sands of vis­i­tors from through­out the coun­try, and as such of­fi­cers of the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion have made the nec­es­sary se­cu­ri­ty and traf­fic arrange­ments to en­sure the suc­cess­ful host­ing of the event,” she added.

The nine-day cel­e­bra­tion be­gan with­out in­ci­dent on Sat­ur­day and con­tin­ues un­til Oc­to­ber 23. An es­ti­mat­ed 3,000 peo­ple were in at­ten­dance on Sat­ur­day, ac­cord­ing to the TTPS, and the num­bers are ex­pect­ed to in­crease in the lead-up to the Di­vali hol­i­day cel­e­bra­tions.

The TTPS said it is ready to deal with any in­ci­dents that may arise from host­ing large crowds at such an event.

The cel­e­bra­tion be­gins dai­ly from 4 pm to mid­night and on the last day is ex­pect­ed to run un­til 1 am.