Panel has also found out that there are scant facilities to screen visitors properly who enter Parliament
It seems security agencies have not learned their lessons from audacious terror attack on Parliament in 2001 that killed nine people, including six security personnel.
If a white ambassador car with a home ministry sticker was used in 2001 by five Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists to sneak into Parliament, there is little way to stop a similar attempt if terrorists this time decide to ride in a car equipped with Radio Frequency tag to enter parliament and create mayhem.
A high level committee of three MPs, all experts in internal security, have found several lacuna in the current security status of Parliament.
The panel was constituted by Lok Sabha Sumitra Mahajan in August last year under the chairmanship of BJP MP, RK Singh (former union home secretary) with two other BJP MPs - former Rajasthan DGP Harish Chandra Meena and former Mumbai Police Commissioner Satyapal Singh.
The Joint Secretary (Security) of Lok Sabha Secretariat is the member secretary of the panel.
The stock taking done by the panel has revealed that out of 450 CCTV (close circuit television) cameras installed in the parliament premises, at least 100 were not functional thus leaving ample scope for any miscreant with a little knowledge to pose a security threat.
The panel has also found out that there are scant facilities to screen visitors properly who enter the parliament in hoards. It has suggested installation of full body scanners and high tech under vehicle scanning system for vehicles to know if anything suspicious is being carried in their underbelly.
The panel also found dearth of bulletproof jackets for security personnel who guard the complex and man all the 12 gates.
They wants more watch towers to be put up to allow sentries to have a clear bird's view from a distance. The current watch towers are far too few and are surrounded by trees that obstructs the view of sentries posted with snipers.
The report has been submitted to the union home ministry besides the Lok Sabha Speaker.
After taking a close look of the report, union home minister Rajnath Singh has found the lapses glaring and decided to install all the suggested security arrangements.
Entry to vehicles with radio-frequency tags
The security drill followed at present allows vehicles of MPs, Parliament officials and journalists, having radio-frequency (RF) tags, to get inside parliament premises without any further screening. What is needed is just the RF tag that to open the boom barrier and enter.
The committee has also suggested that the existing system of taking security men on deputation is not good enough and deputation should be done away with. And even if people are taken on deputation, they should be on a long-term basis.
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