In order to enhance passenger comfort, the Central
Industrial Security Force (CISF) has decided to cut security checks and
frisking time at the airports to almost half of the present time taken.
The force has prepared a four-point new standard operating
procedure for its security personnel who are deployed at the country’s 59 civil
airports to frisk and identify genuine travelling passengers and scan suspect
baggage.
“We have decided to cut the security check time for air
fliers at airports by half. At present, our officials take 7-8 minutes to
complete the frisking and identification of passengers but now we plan to cut
it down by half to about 4 minutes,” Chief of CISF airport security unit O P
Singh told PTI.
Singh said new modules and SOPs have been developed to
enable the CISF security men achieve this target.
“We have initiated a new profiling mechanism by which the
security person intelligently identifies between a genuine and a fake or
suspect passenger. Once that is done, the security personnel are being trained
to quickly go through three details in the air ticket which is checking the correct
flight number, date, time and the valid I-card of the passenger,” Additional
Director General (CISF) Singh said.
Authorities of the force are particularly driven to
undertake such measures after a latest survey they conducted among passengers
at Indian airports found out that extended waiting time for security checks was
troubling maximum number of air fliers in the country.
Source: http://indianexpress.com/article/business/companies/airport-security-check-time-to-be-halved-for-fliers-cisf/
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