UP: 24 police outposts to be set up on Lucknow-Agra expressway

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police (DGP) Sulkhan Singh on Saturday held a meeting with senior police officials on security arrangements on the Lucknow-Agra Expressway.

"At the meeting it was decided that 24 police outposts will be set up," a police spokesperson said.

The Uttar Pradesh Expressways Industrial Development Authority (UPEIDA) will make available 20 patrolling vehicles, four high-speed interceptors and two cranes, the official said.

Adequate police force will be deployed at the police outposts and it was decided to immediately stop heavy vehicles and vehicles plying in wrong direction for better movement of the traffic, the police spokesperson said.

Law and order is a major issue in Uttar Pradesh. Recently a gangrape-cum murder incident had occurred in Jewar area off the Yamuna Expressway triggering outrage.