Security agencies will soon deploy a host of gadgets including those that can scan shoes and bottled liquids of suspect air passengers at all airports across the country to avoid bombings like the one at Russia's Domodedovo airport.
Security agencies will soon deploy a host of gadgets including those that can scan shoes and bottled liquids of suspect air passengers at all airports across the country to avoid bombings like the one at Russia's Domodedovo airport.
The government has also sanctioned deployment of large baggage scanners and sniffer dog squads at all airports guarded by the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), a senior officer of the paramilitary said.
"After the Bureau of Civil Aviation (BCA) issued guidelines, we have begun random checking of passengers at all the airports. At three airports - Lucknow, Ahmedabad and Hyderabad - baggage scanners have been installed. They will be introduced at all airports in the country," CISF director general NR Das told reporters in New Delhi.
"We have also suggested to deploy shoe and liquid detectors at all airports learning from past experiences, including the Moscow airport incident early this year," he said.
Das said only suspect passengers, based on random profiling, will have to get their baggage screened at the new machines and not all air passengers will have to undergo this exercise, as this may lead to long queues.
Unveiling the new plan to strengthen airport security across the country, the CISF chief said almost all 58 airports under their security umbrella will be bifurcated into separate arrival and departure areas in order to fortify security arrangements.
"This is to preclude the possibility...the situation which was there at the Moscow airport," Das said, adding, airport visitors will also not be allowed to carry any baggage into the terminals.
"We are also introducing dog squads consisting more than 300 sniffer dogs at the 58 airports under our command. At present, six airports have canine squads," he said.
The CISF was mandated to secure the country's airports after the 1999 Kandahar hijacking and the force has been enhancing its manpower at almost all major airports keeping in mind the increase in passenger load and air operations.
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