Standard Operating Procedure for stepping up of Preventive Vigilance Mechanism by the jurisdictional CBIC field formations and to prevent flow of suspicious cash, illicit liquor, drugs/narcotics, freebies and smuggled goods during elections.

Preventive vigilance during elections: intensified CBIC controls on movement, storage and reporting of inducement goods and cash.

The SOP directs CBIC formations to intensify preventive vigilance during elections by establishing Central Control Rooms and nodal officers, deploying Flying Squads and Static Surveillance Teams, mapping and monitoring warehouses and bonded premises, conducting targeted checks of movement and stocks of potential inducement items, and enhancing intelligence and analytics. It mandates real time reporting through ESMS and daily collated reports to CBIC investigators, with major seizures communicated to the Election Commission in the prescribed format within 24 hours.