The Coimbatore City Police are in the efforts to audit security arrangements in gated communities in the city in the wake of two murders of senior citizens within a span of two months.

City Police Commissioner N. Kannan told The Hindu the police were in the process of collecting details of gated communities in the jurisdiction of the city police.

After preparing the list, an Inspector or a Sub-Inspector will visit each gated community and inspect the security arrangements, such as security guard, surveillance cameras, gate, adequate illumination during night and maintenance of records like visitor’s registry.

The police will recommend the residents’ associations to improve any of these aspects, if required, after the inspection.

“In the two murders, the perpetrators were known to the victims, who were senior citizens. The police will instruct the residents associations to have extra attention on senior citizens residing alone,” he said.

Residents’ associations will also be asked to record details of visitors and various service providers visiting gated communities.

The measures are being taken following the murder of an 82-year-old woman by her domestic help and her aides in a gated community on Nanjundapuram Road in the city on March 6 and the murder of a 69-year-old woman by a laundry shop supervisor in an apartment on Tiruchi Road near Sungam on May 2. While the police arrested the accused in the second case, two Nepali nationals involved in the first case are at large.