Random checks lined up at airports

New Delhi: One more layer of security is being planned at Indian airports: random checks before entering the airport building.
Increased threat perception and repeated incidents of ammunition being found at airports have prompted the decision.
The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), which guards 57 airports across the country except the one in Srinagar where the army and the state forces are in charge, will carry out random checks of baggage before passengers enter the airport building.
The CISF director-general, N.R. Das, said a trial for such a security check was carried out in Mumbai.
Sources said the exercise would soon be extended to all major airports in the country.
“We find bullets from baggage almost every day,” Das said. On February 20, eight 7.62mm bullets were found in the men’s rest room at the Indira Gandhi International airport in Delhi.
08/03/09 The Telegraph

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Categories: Airports Mar 2009, Safety Mar 2009