For the New Year’s Eve bashes, hotel and bars owners were asked to give details like names and addresses along with photographs of bouncers. The idea, police officials said, was to keep a check on all of them.

Two SHOs, nine sub-inspectors and head constables, 45 constables, 12 traffic sub-inspectors, and 20 homeguards were posted at the Sector 18 market alone. Five ambulances and three fire-brigade vans were also stationed at the popular market.

At the singer’s concert last month, bouncers managing the crowd along the entrance had reportedly misbehaved with women, even slapping some of them and seriously injuring a few. All of them went off scot-free despite complaints, it was alleged.

But Noida police said cases would be registered against bouncers and the hotel management in case of reports of misbehaviour on the New Year’s Eve bashes. All hotels were instructed to have their bouncers wear all-black clothes for easy differentiation.

On Monday evening, SP (City) Paresh Pandey said, “All bouncers will have to bear identification badges on their clothes. If that doesn’t happen we will take action against the hotel management.”

The police did not, however, put any limit on the number of bouncers that hotels and bars could deploy on New Year’s Eve.

N C Somaya, manager of the Radisson Hotel in Sector 18, said, “We have deployed 15 bouncers at the hotel and a team of security guards outside the hotel. All instructions of the police have been followed properly.”

Rahul Mathur, marketing and sales head at Mosaic Hotel in Sector 18, said: “We have deployed our own guards and bouncers and instructions have been followed. But in cases where we need to handle misbehaving people, we might have to use force too.”