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XtraTime Web Desk: Kerala Police is taking an innovative approach to spot the violators of lock-down rules. They are using the voice of Team India’s coach and successful commentator Ravi Shatsri’s petphrase “tracer bullet” to spot the violators. Using the audio commentary of Ravi Shastri's 'tracer bullet' challenge using a drone, the Kerala Police tweeted a video-clipping which showed their campaign of spotting the violators of lock-down rules. "It was the idea of our special team headed by Manoj Abraham (IPL, Additional Director of Police, Cyber Head)", said Police Commissioner Loknath Behera. https://twitter.com/TheKeralaPolice/status/1247441159892267010 "The main idea is to catch the youngsters, who violate the rules more than the senior citizens and considering their (youngsters) interest, we came out with this innovative idea", he added. "Yes, Kerala State police is the first one coming out with this idea and may other State police follow it". "The game of cricket is being largely followed in our country and Shastri's voice is widely acceptable in the society. People respect him a lot and therefore his commentary phrase was used in background score of its 'drone sightings'". The young people are seen running through the coconut groves and beaches in this edited drone video, which has Shastri's audio commentary and his tracer bullet phrase mimicked by Sunil Gavaskar, Sanjay Manjrekar and Ian Botham. It is learnt Kerala Police is also thinking of approaching Indian cricket legends like Sachin Tendulkar, Sunil Gavaskar and Virat Kohli. Tendulkar also happens to be the ambassador of the state and owns ISL franchise Kerala Blasters. Shastri had recently tweeted his popular phrase while tweeting on the pandemic, saying, "Only thing flying around the world like a tracer bullet is this bloody Corona (COVID-19). Stay in before the bugger gets you."