Patna: Security was beefed up at the city airport following an alert issued by the Union ministry of home affairs (MHA) on Tuesday in the wake of hijacking of an Egypt Air flight from Alexandria to Cairo.
Patna airport's chief security officer and CISF commandant Dharmveer Yadav said the MHA message to increase security was received around 11am following which the intensity and frequency of checking of vehicles entering the airport premises were increased. "Three major steps - random screening, explosive trace detection (ETD) and physical check -- have been increased four folds," he said.
The ETD practice is now being conducted on more than 40% travellers, 30% up from normal 10%., he said and added the process included taking swab samples from traveller's body and luggage putting them inside the ETD machine to identify even the smallest trace of explosives.
Electronic surveillance with the help of CCTVs has also been increased and vigil is being kept on the two new parking lots at the airport, Yadav said. The operators are already practising 'secondary ladder point check', in which travellers are checked just before entering the aircraft, following hoax calls about bombs inside aeroplanes in different part of the country, sources said.
30/03/16 Times of India
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Patna airport's chief security officer and CISF commandant Dharmveer Yadav said the MHA message to increase security was received around 11am following which the intensity and frequency of checking of vehicles entering the airport premises were increased. "Three major steps - random screening, explosive trace detection (ETD) and physical check -- have been increased four folds," he said.
The ETD practice is now being conducted on more than 40% travellers, 30% up from normal 10%., he said and added the process included taking swab samples from traveller's body and luggage putting them inside the ETD machine to identify even the smallest trace of explosives.
Electronic surveillance with the help of CCTVs has also been increased and vigil is being kept on the two new parking lots at the airport, Yadav said. The operators are already practising 'secondary ladder point check', in which travellers are checked just before entering the aircraft, following hoax calls about bombs inside aeroplanes in different part of the country, sources said.
30/03/16 Times of India
