Airport line security to be a private affair

Delhi Airport Metro Express Private Limited (DAMEPL), the operator of high-speed Metro Airport Express line has refused to engage Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) for security purposes. The development comes a day after Commissioner of Metro Rail Safety had asked the operator to reconsider its security plan as CISF was engaged in providing security to other lines of Delhi Metro.
A DAMPEL spokesperson told MiD DAY, "We have proposed that our in-house team will take care of the security of Airport Express line. We have recruited competent people for the same from defence services and well-known security agencies. All the necessary security equipment has been procured and installed. In order to have sufficient manpower and provide foolproof security, we are not depending on a single agency but are engaging two agencies - SIS and Securitus," said the spokesperson.
Sometime back MiD DAY had first reported about DAMPEL's decision to engage private security for the link. Interestingly, the matter had come up for discussion in the Home Ministry and Bureau of Civil Aviation had also expressed reservations about the operator engaging private security personnel as the line will have check-in facility at the Metro station itself.
12/01/10 Surender Sharma/MiD DAY

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Categories: Airports Jan 2011