Central force personnel will be trained in close combat for hijack situation and reflex shooting
With sensitive installations like airports and nuclear plants increasingly under terror radar, the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) is honing up the skills of its personnel.
The CISF personnel deployed in sensitive places/installations would now undergo a tactical and thorough training and rigorous shooting practices at an interval of every 15 days, Director General CISF, OP Singh told DNA. As of now this is a bi-yearly or yearly feature.
The measure has been taken after a series of attacks on airports abroad, following which alerts were issued at Indian airports, specially in metro cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai and Kolkata.
"We receive many threat inputs, usually near the Independence Day, Republic Day or during religious festivals. Every such input is taken seriously and a dedicated committee is assigned to look into it. The committee declares the threat as 'specific' (with particular details) or 'non-specific' (vague). If found specific, immediate measures are taken to foil the attack. We have different teams with excellence in specific operations, and keeping the airports' security in mind," Singh said.
He said the new initiative is to polish the skills of the commandos in Quick Response Teams further, and to keep them ready for any surprise threat. "The training will be carried out at National Industrial Security Academy (NISA) at Hyderabad soon. The new sessions would include moving target practice and close combat, focusing on a hijack situation. The training given here would be different. It would focus on physical reflexes and tactical skills. This would further sharpen skills of our men," the DG said.
The CISF, at present, is in charge of the security at 59 airports in the country. While 18 of them are sensitive, 18 are hyper-sensitive, which includes the ones in New Delhi and other metro cities.
Singh said that the security of airports will now be under a single unified command of CISF, as earlier, MoCA had suggested for raising a special Aviation Security Force.
Talking about the menace of illegal entries inside the terminals, the DG said various studies are being carried out by the Bureau of Civil Aviation and the CISF too. "We are in the process of digitising things. Finger-prints on ticket, bar-coding of tickets and many plans are under consideration," he said.
AIRPORTS UNDER ATTACK
- March 2017 - Suicide bomber blews himself up at Dhaka international airport
- June 2016 - Three terrorists open fire, carry out bomb attack on Istanbul's Ataturk airport, killing 41 people and injured more than 230
- March 2016 - Twin blasts struck main terminal at Brussels airport and a metro station in the city killing 32 people from around the world
- June 2007 - A vehicle loaded with propane canisters driven into the glass doors of the Glasgow Airport terminal and set ablaze
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