Plainclothes security personnel have also been deployed in larger numbers to keep tab on suspicious movements at these facilities, sources said.Airports like Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Chennai and Ahmedabad have been selected for these measures, where CISF and state police personnel have increased vigil and passengers are being screened minutely.Quick Reaction Teams of CISF commandos and the local police have been positioned at vantage locations around all major airports to enhance vigil along their peripheries.The security agencies have increased their vigil at major airports across India following the heightened alert issued by the intelligence agencies after the Brussels attacks. The frisking of passengers on the air side just before they enter the aircraft has been started for people who appear suspicious, thus not all passengers have to undergo it.
As part of additional security measures, passengers are being made to take off footwear and belts and go through extra frisking. “The security paraphernalia at places where there is a large public interface is definitely more proactive than earlier keeping in mind that there are no added hassles in their movement and the security of travellers,” the sources said. More commandos have been deployed. The security agencies have reintroduced risk-based Secondary Ladder Point Checks, which entails frisking people before they board the aircraft. The security teams along the peripheries have been told to be extra cautious as people can enter the terminal area unchecked, sources said.Fliers are being asked to take off their footwear and belts to undertake a “clean search”, a second layer of profiling-based body sea-rch and frisking is being done just before passengers board an aircraft.
Special anti-sabotage teams and bomb detection and disposal teams and sniffer dogs have been asked to be on standby at these airports.India does not follow the “concourse security” plan for civil aviation operations, that entails frisking of fliers and their luggage before they enter the airport. “Keeping in mind the “security hold” pattern at airports, where passengers enter the terminal area unchecked and are frisked later in a designated area, surveillance and patrol teams along the peripheries have been asked to be extra cautious, mainly keeping in mind the heightened security alert after the Brussels attack and in view of the vulnerability of these facilities,” the sources said.More intensified checks are also being made of Super light PP luggage Manufacturers both hand baggage and booked cargo of fliers in the wake of the Brussels attack.
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