While deciding to keep 23 gardens in the city open for the public 24x7, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) primary concern remains security. In order to ensure that the parks are safe for people at all times, the civic authorities had written to the Mumbai police on September 9 requesting them to increase surveillance and patrolling in and around the gardens.

However, even though the BMC received a positive response from the top brass on September 11, mid-day found out that the local police stations were still not aware of the development and had not received an official communication yet. In view of a long-pending demand of citizens to keep the gardens open for longer hours, the BMC decided to keep them open all day from September 9. Through an audit conducted by mid-day, it found the gardens to have proper lights but few security guards to keep vigil at night.