The detectors will be mounted on patrol vehicles and will help detect radiation leaks from contaminated scrap to prevent radiation accidents
The Gujarat police will soon be better prepared to detect radiation leaks in the state, and also what are known as ‘dirty bombs’.
Around 80 mobile radiation detection systems (MRDS) are to be installed in vehicles of different police stations in Ahmedabad, Surat and Vadodara.
The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has approved such MRDS for 880 police stations across the country, out of which 80 have been allotted to Gujarat. Police said the devices will help prevent radiation accidents of the kind that recently claimed one life in Delhi and left many injured.
Of the 80 MRDS allotted to Gujarat, 40 will be given to police stations in Ahmedabad. This means that every police station in the city will have one MRDS. Surat and Vadodara will be getting 20 such systems each. However, before the instruments are installed in the vehicles, police personnel would also be given training in how to use them.
“We are thinking of installing the instruments right now. The plan is to equip patrolling vehicles with MRDS so that they can detect radiation in the city, if there is any. It will be quite useful to have them in police vehicles used for patrolling,” said Shamsher Singh, joint commissioner of police, special branch.
According to Singh, each police station (there are around 40 in the city now) will be given one MDRS. They will be enormously useful in detecting radiation that may be coming from contaminated scrap, or as a result of terrorist activity, he said.
It is worth mentioning that there have been reports warning of terrorists using radioactive material to launch attacks. Such materials are also known as ‘dirty bombs’. Several agencies, including the Indian army, have expressed worries about such an attack because of reports that terror outfits might have gained access to uranium and equipment to make the ‘dirty bombs’.
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